Party MP Mahua Moitra and TMC national vice president Luizinho Faleiro welcomed Kandolkar to the TMC. (image credit: TMC)
Kandolkar, a former BJP MLA, had joined GFP in 2020.
- PTI
- Last Update:November 20, 2021 at 5:36 pm IS
- Follow us on:
Goa Forward Party (GFP) working president Kiran Kandolkar on Saturday quit the party and joined the Trinamool Congress in protest against a possible alliance with the Congress in the upcoming assembly elections. Party MP Mahua Moitra and TMC national vice president Luizinho Faleiro welcomed Kandolkar to the TMC.
Kandolkar, a former BJP MLA, had joined GFP in 2020. Incidentally, he was declared the GFP candidate from the Aldona seat for the assembly elections to be held early next year. “But the Congress has started campaigning there. I think Congress will leave the party led by Vijay Sardesai at the last minute. I think parties like Congress and AAP are not serious about defeating BJP. Mamata Banerjee The party is only capable of defeating the BJP in the elections to be held next year. Rahul Gandhi or Arvind Kejriwal cannot defeat Narendra Modi. But Mamata Banerjee has shown in West Bengal that she can compete and give a crushing defeat to BJP. In the 2017 Goa Assembly elections, the Congress had won the highest number of 17 seats in the 40-member house and narrowed down the BJP to 13. However, the BJP formed an alliance with regional parties—the GFP and the MGP—to form the government under the late Manohar Parrikar.
read all breaking news, breaking news And coronavirus news Here. follow us on Facebook, Twitter And Wire,