Tag: MGP

  • Goa Assembly polls: Former MGP MLA Lavu Mamlatdar to join Trinamool Congress

    By PTI

    PANAJI: Former Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party MLA Lavu Mamladar on Monday said he would be joining the Trinamool Congress and was keen to contest the 2022 Goa Assembly polls from Madkaim, a stronghold of MGP chief Sudin Dhavalikar.

    Mamlatdar, a former police officer who represented Ponda seat between 2012 and 2017, said he had been in discussions with the Mamata Banerjee-led party since September 1 and would be joining it formally in Kolkata on Tuesday.

    “I would like to contest the 2022 Assembly polls from Madkaim,” he told reporters.