Panaji (Goa) [India], March 8 (ANI): Luizinho Faleiro, Trinamool Congress National Vice President on Tuesday, while speaking on the Goa exit poll results said that the party has taken a vertical jump in the political scenario of the state.

Panaji (Goa) [India], January 28 (ANI): Trinamool Congress Vice-President Luizinho Faleiro on Friday announced his withdrawal as a TMC candidate from Goa's Fatorda constituency for the upcoming Assembly polls.

Panaji Jan 18 PTI The Trinamool Congress on Tuesday announced its first list of 11 candidates for the Goa Assembly polls scheduled for February 14 Rajya Sabha MP Luizinho Faleiro has been nominated from Fatorda Assembly constituency which is represented at present by Goa Forward Party chief Vijai Sardesai As per the list former GFP leaders Kiran Kandolkar and Jagdish Bhobe who resigned from the Sardesai-led party on Tuesday itself will contest from Aldona and St Andre seats respectively Former Goa chief minister Churchill Alemao will contest from Benaulim and his daughter Valanka has been given a ticket from Navelim Former BJP leader Sandeep Vazarkar will fight from Porvorim Samil Volvoikar from Cumbharjua Ganpat Gaonkar from Poriem Gilbert Mariano Rodrigues from Cortalim Jose Raju Cabral from Nuvem and Dr Jorson Fernandes from Cuncolim the TMC said The Mamata Banerjee-led party is fighting the polls for the 40-member Assembly in alliance with Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party MGP PTI RPS BNM BNM BNM

Panaji Dec 21 PTI Carlose Almeida the BJP MLA from Vasco on Tuesday quit the ruling party and resigned as a member of the Goa Legislative Assembly ahead of state pollsThe MLA said he was quitting as he had been asked to work in the constituency under the leadership of Daji Salkar against whom he had filed a case of fraudAssembly polls are due in the coastal state early next yearAlmeida became the second BJP MLA to quit the party and seventh legislator to resign from the Assembly in the recent weeksBefore him Luizinho Faleiro Ravi Naik Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco all from Congress Jayesh Salgaonkar Goa Forward Party Rohan Khaunte independent and Alina Saldanha BJP had resigned from the 40-member House PTI RPS KRK KRK

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], December 21 (ANI): The sitting MLA from Curtorim of Goa, Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco who resigned from Congress yesterday, has joined Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Tuesday in the presence of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and party's National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee.

Panaji Dec 20 PTI In yet another jolt the Congress ahead of the Goa Assembly polls the partys state working president Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco resigned as Member of the Legislative Assembly on Monday reducing the partys strength to two in the 40-member House Two other Congress leaders had also recently resigned as MLAs in the state where elections are due early next year Notably the Congress last week declared its first list of eight candidates for the forthcoming state polls and Lourencos name figured in it Lourenco who represented the Curtorim Assembly segment in south Goa district submitted his resignation to the Assembly Speakers office on Monday afternoon He later also resigned from the Congress sources said Lourenco who was the working president of the Goa Pradesh Congress Committee was not available for comments He may join the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress Party TMC soon the sources said Earlier this month former Goa chief minister Ravi Naik resigned as Congress MLA A few months back ex-CM Luizinho Faleiro had also quit the Congress and joined the TMC which has decided to contest the Goa Assembly polls In the 2017 Goa Assembly elections the Congress had won 17 seats in the House and emerged as the single largest party But the BJP which had bagged 13 seats quickly tied-up with some regional parties and independents to form government in the state PTI RPS GK GK

New Delhi Nov 30 PTI Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday met two Goa Forward Party MLAs and an independent at his residence here after they extended their support to the party to defeat the BJP in the assembly polls early next year Goa Forward Party MLAs Vijay Sardesai and Vinod Palyekar and independent legislator Prasad Gaonkar met Gandhi and alleged that the BJP government in the state was corrupt Assembly elections in Goa are slated for early next year and the Congress is seeking the support of smaller parties in the state to oust the BJP from power However there has been no announcement of a pre-poll alliance yet The Congress suffered a jolt recently when its former chief minister Luizinho Faleiro quit the party and joined the Trinamool Congress TMC along with his supporters The TMC is seeking to emerge as a political force in Goa so is the Aam Aadmi Party AAP PTI SKC SMN

Kolkata Nov 22 PTI Trinamool Congress leader Luizinho Faleiro on Monday was elected to the Rajya Sabha unopposed in a by-poll according to a notification of the West Bengal assemblyThe TMC last week named its vice-president Luizinho Faleiro a former chief minister of Goa as its candidate for the by-electionThe assembly secretary in a notification today announced that Luizinho Faleiro has been elected to Rajya Sabha in the by-poll After scrutiny of papers he was declared elected unopposed TMC Chief Whip Nirmal Ghosh said He will collect his certificate on Tuesday Ghosh saidThe by-poll to the RS seat was necessitated following the resignation of TMC MP Arpita Ghosh from the Upper House of ParliamentJust like the previous two Rajya Sabha by-polls Falerio too has been elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha The time too the opposition BJP did not field any candidate he saidTMC candidates Sushmita Dev and Jawhar Sircar were earlier elected to the RS unopposedFaleiro ended his decades-long association with the Congress and joined the TMC in September in Kolkata He was appointed as the partys national vice-president last monthThe Trinamool Congress after a stunning victory in the West Bengal Assembly elections earlier this year is trying to expand its footprint in BJP-ruled Goa and TripuraAssembly elections in Goa and Tripura are due in 2022 and 2023 respectively PTI PNT NN NN

Panaji (Goa) [India], November 20 (ANI): Kiran Kadolkar, the former Working President of the Goa Forward Party (GFP) and other GFP office bearers joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Saturday.

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], November 14 (ANI): Former Goa Chief Minister and All India Trinamool Congress leader Luizinho Faleiro will file nomination papers in West Bengal Assembly on Monday for election to Rajya Sabha.