Goa: Two days after quitting the Congress party, former Goa chief minister Luizinho Faleiro joined the Trinamool Congress  (TMC) on Wednesday,  September 29.

Faleiro joined the party in presence of Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and other senior leaders such as Sougata Ray and Subrata Mukherjee. What Faleiro mentioned after taking the decision reads as follows:-

''At the outset, I must say I am a Congressman. I have same ideology and principles. Today when I am joining the TMC, my dream is to bring together this Congress family. I should try to ensure that the Congress family is again united. My main aim is to defeat the BJP.”.

Earlier in the day, Faleiro along with a few other Congress leaders from Goa met TMC supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

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