Another blow to Congress: Senior Goa leader Savio Rodrigues resigns on Twitter

The exodus from the Goa unit of the Congress continues. After party MLA and senior state leader Vishwajit Rane resigned from the party, another senior member, Savio Rodrigues, announced on Twitter that he had quit the party on Friday morning. 

The Goa Congress leaders have been very vocal of the lackadaisical attitude of the party leadership, especially by senior party leader Digvijay Singh, for wasting the mandate won by the MLAs.

I have resigned from the Congress. I am too small a voter to merit even a phone call. @OfficeOfRG @nayanchandra @sureshnakhua

— Savio Rodrigues (@PrinceArihan) March 17, 2017

Singh is the general secretary incharge of Congress in Goa, who was negotiating with various parties and elected MLAs after the results came in on March 11.

Alliance or non-alliance. We got enough numbers. Did we not fail to go the governor or elect leader @digvijaya_28 @OfficeOfRG @nayanchandra

— Savio Rodrigues (@PrinceArihan) March 17, 2017

The Congress failed to cobble up a majority despite winning 17 of the 40 seats in Goa, even as all opposition members other than Congress joined hands with BJP to form a government under BJP's Manohar Parrikar.