Resignation and an Expulsion: Trouble for Mamata Banerjee Worsens Ahead of Assembly Polls
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Hours after West Bengal Forest Minister Rajib Banerjee resigned from the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Friday expelled its party MLA Vaishali Dalmia after a meeting of the disciplinary committee.
The decision to expel Dalmia came as for the last few months she has been publicly criticizing the party, sources said. Her accusations against the functioning of a few TMC leaders had intensified following the resignation of state minister and former cricketer Laxmi Ratan Shukla.
Recently, she had claimed that some people within the party and ‘outsiders’ (hinting at Prashant Kishor) were ‘eating up the TMC like termites’. She also alleged that efficient people were not being allowed to work independently for the greater interest of the people in the state.