MARGAO: The Trinamool Congress’s (TMC) Margao candidate Mahesh Amonkar for the 2022 State Assembly elections submitted his resignation to the party a day after the election results were announced.
Amonkar, who is also a Margao Municipal councilor finished fourth amongst the five candidates, getting only 923 votes (4.08% of the vote share) and he announced his resignation at a media briefing held on Friday.
While he refuted allegations leveled against him that he had contested to split the opposition votes to ensure Congress’s Margao MLA Digambar Kamat would win, Amonkar lashed out at I-PAC for letting down its candidates.
He also contradicted I-PAC’s Prashant Kishor’s statement of not being involved in TMC’s Goa election campaign and said it was Kishor himself who had offered him the ticket.
He added that he wanted to resign from TMC five days before the elections as they had betrayed him and provided him no support whatsoever and betrayed him. He explained that he did not do so then as he would have been disqualified but added that he does not see any future for TMC in Goa and expects many others from Goa to resign from the party.
He does not blame TMC’s supremo Mamata Banerjee but only I-Pac
