Kolkata: Hours after quitting as the MLA of the West Bengal Assembly, Rajib Banerjee on Friday resigned from the primary membership of the TMC, intensifying speculation that he might soon switch over to the BJP.
He sent his resignation letter to TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, thanking her for the opportunities given to him to serve the people of the state.
“I do hereby tender my resignation as a member of the All India Trinamool Congress as well as from all other positions held by me in the party and its associates with immediate effect,” Banerjee, who had stepped down from the state cabinet last week, wrote in his resignation letter.
The former forest minister, after ending his two- decade-old relationship with the TMC, said he would always value the time he spent as a member of the party.
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In Bengal it is Mamata, Mamata and all the way it is Mamata. No one in TMC has any root on the ground. It is mamata and none else could dare to challenge 34 years regime of CMP. when she started her political party it was she and she along single handed dealt with the movement. Many time the then CPM attempted to murder her in a way that would not prove to be a political murder. We the people of Bengal never found these people who are now resigning to join BJP. Their ambitions and their involvement in many such case that would invite CBI, ED makes them flee for safety. Winning elections are very different. Rajeev Banerjee is not a very much known with the people of Bengal he is a leader in very small place and that would also be eroded.