Suvendu Adhikari resigns from TMC ANI | Updated: Dec 17, 2020 17:38 IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) December 17 (ANI): Rebel Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Suvendu Adhikari formally tendered his resignation to party chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday, when he also resigned from the state Legislative Assembly, sources confirmed on Thursday.
In his resignation letter, addressed to the party chief and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Adhikari thanked the TMC for the opportunities given to him. I am writing to tender my resignation as a member of All India Trinamool Congress as well as from all other positions held by me in the party and its associate organs with immediate effect. I am thankful for all the challenges and opportunities that have been given to me and I will always value my time spent as a member of the party, he wrote.
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In his resignation letter, Adhikari said he was thankful for all the challenges and opportunities and would always value the time he spent as a member of TMC. Updated: December 17, 2020 8:00:11 pm
Suvendu Adhikari, Trinamool Congress MP from Tamluk. (Express Photo By Partha Paul)
In a double jolt to the ruling TMC in West Bengal,
Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders Suvendu Adhikari and Jitendra Tiwari resigned from the primary membership of the party on Thursday. Adhikari, who quit as Nandigram MLA on Wednesday, tendered his resignation to party supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Adhikari is expected to join the BJP soon.
Congress sends out feelers to TMC rebel Suvendu Adhikari
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Published: Thursday, December 17, 2020, 8:19 [IST]
Kolkata, Dec 17: Rebel Trinamool Congress leader Suvendu Adhikari submitted his resignation as an MLA to the West Bengal assembly secretary has been getting feelers from the Congress.
This comes in the wake of clear indications that he is set to quit the TMC led by Mamata Banerjee ahead of the West Bengal elections. A leader from Bengal is said to have called him and conveyed Rahul Gandhi s message.
Rebel Trinamool Congress leader Suvendu Adhikari
However, reports say that Adhikari is said to have declined the offer stating that the Congress is organisationally weak in Bengal. He is also learnt to have said that s ambition was to have a political say in state politics.
Blow to TMC, rebel leader Suvendu Adhikari resigns from West Bengal Legislative Assembly
Adhikari is likely to join the BJP during Union Home Minister Amit Shah s proposed visit to Bengal this week, sources close to him said. Suvendu Adhikari (Photo: Facebook)
Updated: Dec 16, 2020, 05:30 PM IST
Rebel Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Suvendu Adhikari tendered his resignation from the West Bengal Legislative Assembly on Wednesday. Adhikari, the MLA of Nandigram constituency in the Purba Medinipur district, had resigned from the state cabinet in November. He has been maintaining distance with the party leadership for quite some time. Adhikari is likely to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during Union Home Minister Amit Shah s proposed visit to Bengal this week, sources close to him said.
All is not well in Trinamool? Rebellion brewing in party as Suvendu Adhikari quits as MLA
Adhikari held a closed-door meeting with disgruntled leaders including Asansol civic body chief Jitendra Tiwari and MP Sunil Mandal at the latter s residence at Kanksa area in Paschim Bardhaman.
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KOLKATA: Rebel Trinamool Congress leader Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday resigned as an MLA intensifying speculations about his switching over to the saffron camp and setting of churnings in the party as several disgruntled lawmakers rallied behind him.
Adhikari, the face of the Nandigram movement that added to the political heft of Mamata Banerjee and catapulted her to power in West Bengal in 2011, submitted his resignation letter to the assembly secretary.