A day after Trinamool Congress heavyweight Suvendu Adhikari resigned just hours before Jitendra Tiwari from the party, on Friday another legislator from Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress party from Barrackpore assembly constituency, Silbhadra Dutta, too called it quits.
According to sources, Dutta also replaced Banerjee's photo, hung on the wall of his office, with Swami Vivekananda.
Dutta also surrendered the car given by the state government and said if the government wants it can withdraw his security cover as well.
He sent his resignation letter to Trinamool supremo Banerjee. "I am tendering my resignation as a member of All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), as well as from all other positions held by me in the party and its associate organisations with immediate effect," he writes in the letter.
Dutta was the third councilman to resign from the party in the past 24 hours.
Showing his gratitude for all the opportunities given to him during his service in the party, Dutta said, "I will always value my time spent as a member of the party. Thus I request you to accept my resignation and oblige.”
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On Thursday, West Bengal state's ruling Trinamool Congress got a double attack when former Nandigram lawmaker Suvendu Adhikari and Pandabeswar MLA Jitendra Tiwari resigned from the party's primary membership.
Jitendra Tiwari has also quit from the post of chairman of the administrative board of the Asansol Municipal Corporation along with the post of Trinamool Congress' district president in West Burdwan on the same day. He had sent his resignation to Trinamool Congress state president Subrata Bakshi.