Team Herald
PANJIM: Trinamool Congress Party (TMC) member and former vice-president of the Goa unit of the party and ex-MLA Farrel Furtado on Sunday appealed to party members not to fall prey to such leaders, whose arrogance has made many founder members quit the party and their vicious plan to close down the TMC office by discrediting leaders.
Reacting to the ongoing attempt to humiliate Rajya Sabha MP Luizinho Faleiro to resign by resorting to whole disciplinary action and vested stories, Farrel urged Faleiro not to resign and rather expose the outsiders. She demanded disciplinary action against those trying to stoop to destroying the TMC.
Referring to a news item appearing in a section of the press that TMC is issuing a gag order and stopping Faleiro from speaking in Parliament, Farrel said, “The cat is out of the bag. We know that in spite of harassment and pressure on him in the past few months, he still took up 40 plus popular issues in Parliament, which proves that this leader from Bengal feels threatened.”
“What I personally feel hurt about is that Faleiro after taking up more than 40 issues of Goa is likely to face disciplinary action. He raised the issue of coal, is that anti-party? He raised issues on seafarers and the illegal structure at Old Goa, is this anti-party to TMC? The issue of establishing a Catholic University in Goa as per Articles 29 and 30 of the Constitution was raised, is this anti-party? He raised several other issues protecting the environment and ecology of our beautiful state. It makes me wonder whether these issues are anti-party to the TMC?”, she asked.
Farrel alleged that TMC leader and MP Derek O’Brien made blunder after blunder during the last Goa Assembly elections. She said that after the elections, she had submitted two detailed reports on why TMC failed in the elections.
“I would now like to ask a quiz question as to who is the so-called leader, who is afraid of revealing his name, who has launched these vicious canards? My Goan blood tells me it cannot be a Goan. One of the main arguments for disciplinary action against Faleiro is that he did not contest in the Fatorda constituency. Where is the question of contesting in Fatorda when he had said he does not want to contest in his own Navelim constituency?” Farrel said.
