TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar steps down from all party posts

Lok Sabha MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar resigned from all organisational posts of the Trinamool Congress on Wednesday, days after publicly airing her disappointment with the party leadership. In a letter addressed to TMC state president Subrata Bakshi, the fourterm Barasat MP resigned from all organisational responsibilities in the party, sources said. After her resignation, TMC down from 29 to 28 in Loksabha. In her resignation letter, Dastidar said she took the decision after “deep mental conflict and long reflection”. Dastidar also spoke about her disappointment with the party’s internal atmosphere and leadership response.

TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar resigned from her post as the president of All India Trinamool Mahila Congress wing.

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The move came a day after she attended Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari's administrative review meeting in Kalyani despite her party allegedly instructing her not to participate in it. After Monday's administrative review meeting, Adhikari had claimed that TMC MP had told him that she had "finally got freedom", a remark that added to the political buzz around her presence at the event.