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New Delhi: Today, Trinamool Congress (TMC) Rajya Sabha MP and former Goa Chief Minister Luizinho Faleiro has resigned from the Upper House of Parliament. Party sources gave this information on Tuesday. According to the information, former Goa Chief Minister Luizinho Faleiro has resigned from the Rajya Sabha citing personal reasons, three years and seven months ahead of his term.
According to TMC sources, the Mamata Banerjee-led party is upset with Faleiro for refusing to contest the 2022 assembly elections from Fatorda against Vijay Sardesai of the Goa Forward Party. The 71-year-old two-term Goa Chief Minister, who left the Congress to join Trinamool in September 2021 and became an MP within two months, submitted his resignation to Rajya Sabha Chairman Jagdeep Dhankhar, which was accepted.
He having stayed away from party affairs in Goa for long, Falero was being pushed by the TMC leadership to resign from the Rajya Sabha. Sources said the party would announce the name as soon as Election Commission announces the schedule.
Faleiro was Congress General Secretary in charge of seven north-eastern states before he left the party, was among a host of Congress leaders who had joined Trinamool Congress during that period.
