Goa: Within month of joining TMC, Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco quits | Goa News – Times of India

MARGAO: The political turbulence in Curtorim has deepened further as Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco, who had resigned as MLA and joined TMC last month, ended his fleeting stint with the party on Sunday by tendering his resignation.
While he is likely to make a ghar wapsi into Congress, Lourenco declined to make his next destination known. “I will decide the future course of action in one or two days,” Lourenco told TOI.
In an official announcement by TMC, its MP and Goa in-charge Mahua Moitra confirmed the exit. tnn.
“We had welcomed him into the party as we have countless others. Now that he wishes to leave, we wish him well,” Moitra said. Lourenco has not given any reason for quitting the party in his resignation letter, addressed to the TMC president.
On Sunday evening, former minister Michael Lobo, who recently quit BJP and joined Congress, tweeted, “To strengthen the @INCGoa and to boost our purpose of forming a Congress government in 2022 in Goa, I request Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco to join us back”.
Lourenco had quit Congress on December 21 to join TMC, days after his name figured in the first list of candidates cleared by the party, and barely two months after he was appointed working president of the state Congress. The post was created for the three-term MLA after the Congress brass succeeded in placating him as he was on the verge of quitting the party to embrace AAP.
Nearly a month after his exit, Congress had failed to zero in on its candidate for the February 14 assembly polls, though four names were shortlisted — former zilla panchayat member Moreno Rebello, his wife and incumbent ZP member Michelle Rebello, South Goa MP Francisco Sardinha’s son Shalom, and former Rachol sarpanch Joseph Vaz.
In pace with Lourenco’s every move, Curtorim’s political landscape also kept changing swiftly. Rebello, who Congress considered its backup candidate given Lourenco’s inclination to quit the party, was inducted into BJP on December 10 and was projected as the party candidate to take on Lourenco. However, as Lourenco quit Congress within 10 days of Moreno’s “saffronisation”, the latter, fancying better prospects in his parent party, quit BJP and rejoined Congress — all in 20 days flat.