Panaji: Bjp MLA Alina Saldanha resigned from the party and the state assembly in Goa on Thursday claiming that the BJP was no longer an organisation that was at the time of her joining in 2012. Saldanha joined the BJP after the death of her husband in 2012. He submitted his resignation to the Goa Assembly Speaker.

Apart from 69-year-old Saldanha, four other MLAs from various parties have also recently resigned from the 40-member Goa Assembly. Alina Saldanha's husband Mathani Saldanha was a minister in Manohar Parrikar's cabinet. After Mathani's death in 2012, Alina Saldanha contested the assembly election from Cortalim seat on a BJP ticket and won. He had won the assembly elections in 2017 also by contesting the assembly elections on a saffron ticket.

Alina Saldanha told the press, 'I have resigned for the right reasons. Because this party is no longer the same as it was when the late Mathani Saldanha and I joined it. He claimed that the ruling party has forgotten all its principles and there is "chaos" in this coastal province. Saldanha said, no one knows who is coming to the party and who is going.'

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