Guwahati: Another Trinamool Rajya Sabha MP, Sushmita Dev, resigned from all party posts, making her the second Rajya Sabha MP from the party to do so this week.
And this is only the third day of the week.
“I do hereby resign from the membership of Rajya Sabha, which may please be accepted with immediate effect,” the outgoing leader said in a letter addressed to Rajya Sabha chairman CP Radhakrishnan.
Shortly after her resignation, a picture of a smiling Sushmita Dev with Assam Chief Minister Himanta Sarma at his Delhi residence appeared online.
“There’s only an Assam connection,” Dev is heard saying on the video when a reporter asks her if there’s an Assam connection.
Speaking to reporters after the meeting, she underlined that the decision to quit was her own.
“What prompted me to take this decision is a very long story, and in politics, not everything needs to be revealed. I don’t want to be in a situation where I am in two boats. I have never stayed at a party and served others. The decision is my own,” she said.
“I am a free woman. Let me be on a few days’ sabbatical. I come from the region of the Barak Valley in Assam. I would like to serve the people of Assam,” she said, dropping hints about her plan.
Asked about her meeting with Himanta Sarma, she said, “I wanted his guidance. I think that he is the right person to guide me.”
Questioned about the tumult in Trinamool, the politician said she is not in on it and refused to say anything about “Mamata Didi”.
