Former Goa MLA and retired police officer, Lavoo Mamledar, joined the Congress on Tuesday, 11 January, after resigning from the Trinamool Congress party (TMC) on 24 December.
Merely three months after he joined the TMC in September last year, Mamledar, a former Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) MLA from Ponda in south Goa, resigned from the Mamata Banerjee-led party last month, 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."Lavoo Mamledar, former Ponda MLA, as quoted by PTI