Goa polls | Alina Saldanha resigns as BJP MLA, joins AAP; says was feeling 'suffocated'
The Hindu
“If I am with the people, I can't be with the BJP,” Ms. Saldanha said
Goa BJP MLA Alina Saldanha, who joined the Aam Aadmi Party after resigning from the Assembly, said she was feeling suffocated in the ruling party whose policies were "anti-people".
Ms. Saldanha had resigned from the Assembly and BJP on Thursday and joined AAP in the presence of its convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal later in the evening in the national capital.
"I was feeling suffocated. Even the party (BJP) also felt I was an obstruction for their goals which are anti-people. If I am with the people, I can't be with the BJP. I am in Delhi and I have seen the progress the Kejriwal government has brought here and so I joined the AAP,” Ms. Saldanha said at an online press conference in the presence of the Delhi CM.