Ex-Goa CM Faleiro is AITC candidate for Rajya Sabha seat bypoll in Bengal

The Trinamool Congress will discipline Luizinho Faleiro, the previous Goa chief minister who joined the social gathering a month and half in the past, as its candidate for the upcoming Rajya Sabha bypoll in Bengal.

Faleiro can even be Trinamool’s face within the Goa meeting elections subsequent yr, social gathering leaders mentioned.

Bengal’s ruling social gathering is making an attempt to get a foothold within the coastal state. Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee has appointed MP Mahua Moitra because the social gathering’s state in command of Goa.

Faleiro, a former Congress chief, is prone to file his nomination for the Rajya Sabha ballot on the Bengal state meeting by Tuesday, the final date for submitting nomination. Voting is scheduled for November 29.

Faleiro joined the Trinamool Congress on September 29, together with 9 different leaders in Kolkata, and was appointed the social gathering’s nationwide vice-president on October 22.