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TMC look for way out of Luizinho-Fatorda affair

Speculations were rife on Sunday that the Trinamool Congress leadership is planning a way out in Fatorda. With TMC Rajya Sabha MP Luizinho Faleiro firm on not contesting the ensuing polls from the constituency, time is running out for the Mamata Didi party to find a way and look for a replacement with the process of filing nomination papers drawing to a close later this week. Will Luizinho pull out of the fray on medical or some other ground? Wait and watch how the TMC wriggles out of the situation.


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Cong oath on defection rakes up bitter past

GUILHERME ALMEIDA
Published Jan 24, 2022, 12:23 AM IST
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When Congress candidates swore before the Almighty last week that they would not defect after election, the episode only brought back bitter past memories. Sources recalled that a similar exercise was undertaken in the run up to the 1999 Assembly election, when then Congress observer S S Alhuwalia had made the candidates take an oath they would not defect. The Congress returned to power in 1999, but the Congress government headed by Chief Minister Luizinho Faleiro collapsed…

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