Denied ticket, two-time TMC MLA Debasree Roy resigns from the party

Kolkata, Mar 15: In yet another blow to Trinamool Congress ( TMC ), actress-turned Trinamool Congress MLA Debasree Roy on Monday tendered her resignation to the party ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections.

 

 

 

In a letter addressed to General Secretary of All India Trinamool Congress and state party president Subrata Bakshi, the Raydighi MLA said she is severing all her ties with TMC. She wrote, "From today I am severing all my ties with the TMC. Since I am not there in any party position there is no need to resign from that. For the last 10 years, I had been the MLA from Raydighi and I want you to relieve me from all my duties. I am grateful to the party for letting me work for the people for a long time."

 

 

The MLA stated that there was no reason behind her exit."Although, I don’t hold any post in the party, but I felt it is necessary to write this letter as I wanted to inform the leadership that I don’t want to be associated with the TMC anymore," she said.

 

Several TMC leaders joined BJP in the run up to the high-voltage assembly elections starting March 27. Last week, State minister Bachchu Hansda and TMC MLA Gouri Sankar Dutta, who did not receive a ticket to contest in the upcoming Assembly polls, had joined the BJP.

 

 

Last Monday was a day of setbacks for the TMC after five of its MLAs, who did not receive a ticket to contest election this time, joined the BJP. Among the TMC leaders who defected to the saffron camp are four-time MLA Sonali Guha, who is a close associate of TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee for decades; four-time MLA Rabindranath Bhattacharya, a prominent face of anti-land acquisition movement in Singur; MLA Jatu Lahiri; MLA Sital Sardar and former footballer-turned-MLA Dipendu Biswas. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s former protege Suvendu Adhikari had also defected to the BJP two months ago.