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  • Trinamool leader and former Goa Chief Minister resigns from Rajya Sabha
  • Luizinho Faleiro was reportedly being nudged by Trinamool leaders to resign
  • Faleiro resigned from Congress in 2021 to join Trinamool Congress

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Trinamool leader and former Goa Chief Minister Luizinho Faleiro resigns from Rajya Sabha

When the TMC made a much-hyped foray in the coastal state, it had asked Rajya Sabha MP Arpita Ghosh, who had a term till 2026, to quit and sent Faleiro to the Upper House in 2021. 

Trinamool leader and former Goa Chief Minister Luizinho Faleiro resigns from Rajya Sabha

Trinamool Congress's (TMC) Rajya Sabha MP and former Goa chief minister Luizinho Faleiro has tendered his resignation from the Upper House of Parliament, party sources said on Tuesday.

Long being sidelined from the party affairs in Goa, Faleiro was being nudged by the TMC leadership to resign from the Rajya Sabha.

The Mamata Banerjee-led party has been upset with Faleiro after he refused to contest the 2022 Assembly election from Fatorda against Goa Forward Party's Vijai Sardesai, according to TMC sources.

When the TMC made a much-hyped foray in the coastal state, it had asked Rajya Sabha MP Arpita Ghosh, who had a term till 2026, to quit and sent Faleiro to the Upper House in 2021.

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