Luizinho Faleiro

Luizinho Faleiro to join TMC in presence of Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata on 29 Sept, say sources

Ex-Goa chief minister Faleiro refused to reveal on Monday whether he would join the TMC but praised Mamata Banerjee, saying the country needs a leader like her to take on prime minister Narendra Modi

Former Goa CM and senior Congress leader Luizinho Faleiro to join TMC, calls Mamata 'street fighter'

This is set to be a big blow for the Congress in the state ahead of the Assembly polls due early next year

Congress in dire straits: After Gujarat, party may see defections in Goa as bypolls near

To understand the continuing goof-ups that plague the Congress across India, one only needs to take a close look at Goa, the country’s smallest state.

Shantaram Naik as Goa Congress chief will lift morale of party after election loss: AICC secretary

Girish Chodankar said the appointment of Rajya Sabha MP Shantaram Naik as the new Goa Congress chief would lift the sagging morale of the party

Rajya Sabha MP Shantaram Naik appointed new Goa Congress chief, will take charge on Saturday

Rajya Sabha member Shantaram Naik was on Friday appointed the new Congress chief for Goa, replacing Luizinho Faleiro who resigned last month apparently due to factionalism in the state unit

Sonia Gandhi accepts Goa Congress chief Luizinho Faleiro's resignation; election for new state chief in September

Congress president Sonia Gandhi has accepted the resignation of the party's Goa unit chief Luizinho Faleiro who stepped down from the post last week, senior leader Chandrakant Kavlekar said in Panaji on Wednesday

Congress suffers a further blow in Goa, as Luizinho Faleiro resigns as state party chief

Goa Congress chief Luizinho Faleiro has tendered his resignation from the post, claiming that some MLAs feel that his continuation was "creating hindrance" to the formation of party's government in Goa

Congress Goa crisis: Another MLA resigns from party, Digvijaya to petition president against guv

After Vishwajit Rane, another disgruntled Congress MLA Savio Rodrigues resigned from the party on Friday. He blamed the Congress high command and general secretary in-charge for Goa, Digvijaya Singh, for failing to form the government despite emerging as the single largest party in the recently held Assembly election.

Manohar Parrikar becomes Goa chief minister but keeping the flock together will be his biggest challenge

Parrikar can add two more ministers in future since the constitutional cap on the size of the ministry in Goa is 12.

Goa Election Result 2017: How Manohar Parrikar, Nitin Gadkari masterminded BJP's coup

Manohar Parrikar will take oath as the new Goa CM, but with a compromised Cabinet that may keep pulling him in different directions, and keep him busy with a balancing act that may last as long as his government does