Panaji: Annoyed by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) not giving tickets for next month’s state assembly elections 2022, former Goa Chief Minister and senior party leader Laxmikant Parsekar (Former Goa) CM Laxmikant Parsekar) said on Saturday that he would resign from the ruling party.
Talking to PTI, the 65-year-old leader said that he does not want to remain in the party and will formally submit his resignation by this evening. Parsekar currently heads the BJP’s manifesto committee for the upcoming Goa elections and is also a member of the party’s core committee. BJP has nominated sitting MLA Dayanand Sopte for Mandrem assembly seat. The seat was represented by Parsekar between 2002 and 2017.
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Sopte had defeated Parsekar as a Congress candidate in the 2017 state assembly elections but joined the ruling party in 2019 along with nine other leaders. Parsekar said, “For the time being, I have decided to resign. What I will do next, I will decide later.” He said that Sopte was ignoring the original BJP workers in Mandrem, causing widespread discontent within him. Parsekar was the Chief Minister of Goa from 2014 to 2017.
He was elected the Chief Minister of the state after the then Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar was inducted into the Union Cabinet. The BJP has announced the first list of 34 candidates for the February 14 Goa Assembly elections. The state has 40 assembly seats. (agency)