The 70-year-old is widely expected to join the Trinamool CongressNew Delhi: Former Goa Chief Minister Luizinho Faleiro today quit the Congress, his party of 40 years, telling Sonia Gandhi in his resignation letter that he saw “absolutely no hope or even the will to prevent the collapse of the party”.Luizinho Faleiro also said the Congress “is not the same party for which we had sacrificed on fought”.The 70-year-old is widely expected to join the Trinamool Congress, and all but announced it as he showered praise on Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.In his letter, Mr Faleiro recalls when the Congress had enough MLAs to try and form a government in Goa in 2017 but was asked to wait. The decision, he said, cost the government and allowed the BJP to “steal the mandate through manipulation and inducement”.In the events that followed, he quit as Goa Congress president. He said he felt the people of his constituency Navelim were also betrayed.”All through this period of four and a half years I maintained a dignified silence through my suffering,” he wrote.
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