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  • After resigning as MLA, Goa Congress leader reaches Kolkata; likely to join Trinamool

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: Senior Goa Congress leader Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco who resigned as an MLA on Monday morning ahead of next year’s assembly election, reached Kolkata in the evening and is likely to join the Trinamool Congress.

    The working president of the Goa Congress was welcomed at the Kolkata airport by TMC MP Santanu Sen.

    “He will meet our party’s top leadership tonight and join the party,” a senior TMC leader said.

    Lourenco resigned as a Member of the Goa Legislative Assembly earlier in the day, reducing the Congress’ strength to two in the 40-member House.

    The Congress reacted sharply to Lourenco’s resignation, saying people who betray the trust will face consequences and that voters from Lourenco’s Assembly segment will teach him a “befitting lesson”.

    A few months back, ex-CM Luizinho Faleiro had also quit the Congress and joined the TMC, which has decided to contest the Goa Assembly polls.

    The TMC supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee last week visited Goa on a two-day political trip and addressed several public meetings.

    The TMC, which is trying to make inroads in the political landscapes of other states, has been up in arms against the grand old party over its alleged failure to counter the BJP.

  • Goa Congress working chief’s visit to hotel where BJP leaders are staying raises eyebrows

    By PTI

    PANAJI: Congress leaders in Goa on Tuesday scrambled to clear the air, a day after state unit working president Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco visited the hotel where BJP’s Goa election incharge Devendra Fadnavis has been staying.

    Lourenco’s midnight visit to the hotel had triggered various speculations in political circles ahead of the Goa Assembly polls, due in February next year.

    Lourenco was spotted leaving the hotel on Monday midnight.

    He had refused to divulge the purpose of his visit when asked by media persons waiting there.

    On Tuesday, Goa Pradesh Congress Committee president Girish Chodankar told reporters that he had asked Lourenco to visit the hotel to attend a scheduled meeting with a poll strategist.

    “Lourenco had not gone to meet any BJP leader. A meeting was scheduled with an election strategist. As I couldn’t go, I sent Lourenco there in midnight,” Chodankar told a press conference.

    The Congress leader said, “one cannot screen the hotels for the presence of BJP leaders”.

    Meanwhile, Lourenco told reporters that he was supposed to meet an election strategist in the hotel but moved out immediately when he came to know that BJP leaders were staying there.

    “When I saw BJP leaders were present there, I thought of moving back immediately,” he said and added that he was loyal to Congress and will remain so.

  • Curtorim MLA Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco appointed Goa Congress working president

    By PTI

    PANAJI: The All India Congress Committee appointed MLA Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco as working president of the party’s Goa unit.

    AICC general secretary KC Venugopal, in a release issued on Sunday, said the party president had approved the proposal of the appointment of working president and treasurer of Goa Pradesh Congress Committee.

    While Lourenco, MLA from Curtorim, has been made working president, James Andrade has been named treasurer.