GFP working president Kiran Kandolkar quits party ahead of Goa polls, joins TMC
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Kandolkar said only the Mamata Banerjee-led party is capable of defeating the BJP in the next year's polls
Goa Forward Party (GFP) working president Kiran Kandolkar quit the party on Saturday in protest against a possible alliance with the Congress in the upcoming Assembly polls and joined the Trinamool Congress.
Mr Kandolkar was welcomed in TMC by the party MP Mahua Moitra and TMC national vice president Luizinho Faleiro.
Mr Kandolkar, a former BJP MLA, had joined GFP in 2020. Incidentally, he was declared the GFP candidate from the Aldona seat for the Assembly polls scheduled early next year.
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