MARGAO
Trinamool Congress party Navelim candidate Valanka Alemao has expressed happiness that both TMC MP Luizinho Faleiro and Churchill Alemao and their supporters are actively working for her success in the coming polls.
Addressing the media held to welcome a group of Navelim BJP mandal members into the TMC, Valanka said Churchill had supported Faleiro in the 2017 election for the Navelim seat, expressing satisfaction that Faleiro and his supporters are actively working for her in Navelim.
Welcoming Mustafa Sheikh, G Sheikh and Mehboob D in the TMC, Churchill said even the BJP mandal members have realised that Valanka will usher in the development of Navelim constituency. “I am happy that people of Navelim have begun to rally behind Valanka,” he said.
Churchill told the media that it was only after Luizinho and his sons said they are not interested in contesting the 2022 elections from Navelim that the Rajya Sabha MP told me to request Valanka to start work in Navelim. “Valanka started working in Navelim only when Luizinho and his sons told us that they are not interested in contesting the 2022 elections,” he said.
Expressing satisfaction that TMC chief Mamata Didi honoured her word by making Luizinho the Rajya Sabha MP, Churchill complimented Luizinho for taking up the burning issues plaguing the state in Rajya Sabha after becoming the MP.
Meanwhile, Trinamool Congress MLA Churchill Alemao has said that Navelim Zilla Panchayat member Cipru Cardozo is moving around the Navelim constituency in order to contest the polls as an Independent since he could not meet his demand.
The three-time ZP member, however, said he has not raised any demand with Churchill, only saying that he is presently checking the pulse of the people of Navelim whether he should go ahead in contesting the elections or not.
