Kandolkar said that only Mamata Banerjee-led party is capable of defeating BJP in next year’s elections
Goa Forward Party (GFP) working president Kiran Kandolkar on Saturday quit the party and joined the Trinamool Congress in protest against a possible alliance with the Congress in the upcoming assembly elections.
Mr. Kandolkar was received in TMC by party MP Mahua Moitra and TMC National Vice President Luizinho Faleiro.
Mr Kandolkar, a former BJP MLA, had joined GFP in 2020. Incidentally, he was declared the GFP candidate from the Aldona seat for the assembly elections to be held early next year.
“But the Congress has started campaigning there. I think the Congress will leave the Vijay Sardesai-led party at the last minute. I think parties like Congress and AAP are serious about defeating the BJP,” he told reporters. are not.”
Mr. Kandolkar said that only the party led by Mamata Banerjee is capable of defeating the BJP in the next year’s elections.
“Rahul Gandhi or Arvind Kejriwal cannot defeat Narendra Modi. But Mamata Banerjee has shown in West Bengal that she can compete and give a crushing defeat to BJP,” he said.
In the 2017 Goa Assembly elections, the Congress had won the highest number of 17 seats in the 40-member house and narrowed down the BJP to 13. However, the BJP formed an alliance with regional parties—the GFP and the MGP—to form the government under the late Manohar Parrikar.
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