TMC’s Margao candidate Mahesh S Amonkar alleged “lack of support and negligence from the designated AITC and I-PAC team” during Assembly polls. (File image of West Bengal CM and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee)Photo : IANSPanaji: Trinamool Congress’ Mahesh S Amonkar, who contested Goa Assembly elections from Margao constituency, resigned from the party on Friday, alleging “lack of support and negligence from the designated AITC and I-PAC team” during Assembly polls. In a letter to Goa party chief Kiran Kandolkar, Amonkar said, “I, Mr Mahesh S Amonkar, member and former candidate for General Assembly Elections 2022 (31-Margao Constituency) of All India Trinamool Congress Party, Goa, has decided to resign from all positions including Party Membership of All India Trinamool Congress due to lack of support and negligence from the designated AITC and I-PAC team during the General Assembly Elections 2022.”
TMC leader Mahesh S. Amonkar, who contested Goa Assembly elections from Margao constituency, resigns from the party… t.co/cdc0gGyiyb— ANI (@ANI) Mar 11, 2022 The Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) contested the Goa Assembly elections for the first time this year. However, it failed to make a mark in the coastal state as it could not win even a single seat.Related NewsPrashant Kishor calls frenzy around state results ‘clever attempt’, says ‘saheb’ knows this Ahead of the election, the party had made a splash by inducting former Goa chief minister Luizinho Faleiro and tennis legend Leander Paes into its fold. It had launched a high decibel campaign with the slogan Goenchi Navi Sakal (New Dawn for Goa), mainly run by political strategist Prashant Kishor’s Indian Political Action Committee (IPAC). But the poll performance of the party failed to match the noise it made while entering the poll fray. Even veteran politician and former Goa chief minister Churchill Alemao, who contested the February 14 election on Trinamool Congress (TMC) ticket, defeated by Capt Venzy Viegas, a merchant navy officer-turned-politician.Related News’BJP’s victory not reflection of people’s mandate’: Mamata pitches for Opposition unity ahead of 2024 LS polls The Goa Assembly election’s result will be a setback for TMC supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Banerjee who has her eyes set on building an alliance of non-BJP opposition parties to take on the saffron party with her at the helm. After the poll debale, party leaders have blamed the Congress for division of opposition votes which, they claim, has led to the victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The BJP won 20 out of 40 seats, emerging as the single largest party.Related NewsGoa Assembly Election: Day after poll results, CM Pramod Sawant holds Cabinet meet to dissolve Assembly “Congress kept saying in Goa that they’ll form the government by themselves. They rebuffed and mocked Opposition parties that proposed an alliance. All Opposition parties know that a like-minded alliance alone can defeat the BJP. But Congress’ arrogance is the never-ending problem,” TMC national spokesperson Saket Gokhale tweeted on Thursday.