Team News Riveting
Goa, December 7
Sitting MLA and former Chief Minister of Goa Ravi Naik today tendered his resignation from the state Assembly inflicting yet another blow to the Congress ahead of Goa polls, party
Naik, who represented Ponda constituency in Goa, submitted his resignation to Legislative Assembly Speaker Rajesh Patnekar. The Congress’s strength in the 40-member Goa Assembly has now come down to three.
In September, former Goa Chief Minister Luizinho Faleiro had resigned as Congress MLA and joined the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC), which is expanding its footprint in the coastal state and announced to contest the state polls due early next year.
The Congress party has tried to downplay the event as its state chief Girish Chodankar said the party had “disowned” him long back and he was not even being considered as the party’s candidate for the forthcoming state polls.
“I have resigned. I will let you know what is the next course of action,” Naik told reporters here after submitting his resignation. Naik is expected to join the BJP. His two sons have joined the saffron camp last year.
