Reacting sharply to Congress Working President MK Shaikh's statement that defectors from the BJP will join the Congress, Valmiki pointed out that the Congress Working President Is Talking About BJP’s Defection Into Congress, This shows That Both BJP Congress Have Same Mentality. They will take defectors from BJP into Congress and after election they will go back to BJP. Has Congress forgotten what was done by Michael Lobo and Babush Monserratte.
Stating that Congress should be ashamed for sounding like the BJP, Valmiki said that a BJP defectors is only interested in joining the Congress so that he can rejoin the BJP. Detailing past incidents he added that in 2022 Michael Lobo returned to the Congress, stood for election along with his wife and then they both defected back to the BJP.
Valmiki also stated that in before the 2019 Panaji by poll Babush Monseratte was suspended by the Congress for supporting the BJP but he was given a Congress ticket in 2019 only for him to defect with other Congress MLAs.
Valmiki Naik Concluded by saying that Congress should not try to cheat Goans again.
