Nearly three months after becoming a member of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), former Goa legislator Lavoo Mamlatdar on Friday resigned from the social gathering, accusing it of being communal and making an attempt to create a divide between Hindus and Christians for votes forward of the state Assembly polls. Alleging the identical, 5 newly inducted TMC leaders additionally resigned from the social gathering.
A resignation letter written to the social gathering supremo Mamata Banerjee said that “we don’t want to continue with a party which is trying to divide Goans. When AITC has failed women of West Bengal, we don’t think it’ll do any better to our Goan mothers.” The chief who give up are- Lavoo Mamledar, Ram Mandrekar, Kishor Pawar, Komal Pawar, and Sujay Mallik.
The former Ponda MLA had joined the Mamata Banerjee-led social gathering within the final week of September. He was among the many first few native leaders within the state to be part of the TMC, which has determined to contest all 40 seats within the Goa Assembly polls, due in February 2022.
He additionally alleged that the TMC was gathering the info of individuals within the identify of rolling out a welfare scheme for girls within the state whether it is voted to energy after the elections. Talking to reporters after resigning from the social gathering, Mamlatdar mentioned, “I had joined the TMC as a result of I used to be totally impressed with Mamata Banerjee-led social gathering’s efficiency in West Bengal (Assembly polls held earlier this yr).” “I was under the impression that TMC is a very secular party. But from whatever I have noticed in the last 15-20 days, I came to know that it is worse than the BJP,” he alleged. The TMC has solid a pre-poll alliance with the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP), of which Mamlatdar was an MLA between 2012 and 2017.
He alleged that the TMC was making an attempt to divide Hindu and Christian votes. “As a part of their pre-poll alliance, they need that the Christian votes ought to go to the TMC and Hindu votes to the MGP…The TMC is a communal social gathering, which is making an attempt to disturb the secular cloth,” he alleged. He accused the TMC of trying to collect the data of people in the name of its Griha Laxmi scheme. “We have found that under its Laxmi Bhandar scheme introduced in West Bengal, only Rs 500 are given, while here they are promising Rs 5,000 to women under the Griha Laxmi scheme, which is next to impossible. The promise of the scheme is entirely to collect data from Goa,” he mentioned.
With PTI inputs
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