KOLKATA: A day after attending West Bengal chief minister Suvendu Adhikari’s administrative review meeting, four-time Barasat MP of Trinamul Congress, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, stepped down from all of her party posts. She also sent her resignation letter to TMC leadership on Wednesday.
The doctor-turned-politician, in her last communication to her party state president Subrata Bakshi, flagged several internal issues including a complaint against a fellow parliamentarian in a veiled reference to Serampore MP Kalyan Banerjee and political consulting by firm I-PAC’s role behind the TMC’s ouster from power.
Dr Ghosh Dastidar stated, “There is no point to stay in a post when an uneducated and rude MP’s indecent behaviour with a female MP cannot be stopped or does not generate any cooperation or sympathy from the higher leadership.”
She added, “My conscience has been deeply moved today. A series of financial and administrative irregularities including the ration scam and teachers’ recruitment scam has given birth to a deep sense of anguish and mistrust in the public mind.”
The TMC veteran then pointed out that “allegations of a possible cover-up” of the rape and murder of a young doctor on duty at R G Kar Medical College and Hospital in August of 2024 have “stunned and pained the entire society. Simultaneously, several serious allegations raised by many against I-PAC have rattled me.”
She underlined further that a clash of policy prompted her to quit her posts which included TMC women’s wing chief. Her gradual dissociation from Mamata Banerjee’s party indicates that her defection to BJP is only a matter of time though she assured in the letter that she would not quit TMC and would remain a mere party worker.
Meanwhile, two TMC councillors Sushanta Ghosh and Arup Chakraborty of Kolkata Municipal Corporation quit as 12 Borough Chairman and Municipal Accounts Committee member respectively. They submitted their resignation to Mayor Firhad Hakim during the day. Their step came close on the heels of TMC councillor Deblina Biswas’ resignation as 9 Borough Chairperson of the KMC.
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