Merely three months after he joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC), former Goa MLA Lavoo Mamledar on Friday, 24 December resigned from the Mamata Banerjee-led party, claiming that it was making false promises and playing communal politics.
"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," Mamledar was quoted as saying by news agency PTI on Thursday.
In a resignation letter addressed to Banerjee, Mamledar wrote:
"We had thought that AITC was a secular party but with deep regret we would like to bring to your notice that AITC has tried to divide Goans on the basis of religion... AITC move to polarise Hindu votes towards MGP and Catholic votes towards AITC is purely communal in nature."Former Goa MLA Lavoo Mamledar