Senior Trinamool chief Amit Mitra is more likely to step down as West Bengal Finance Minister on account of ill-health, sources within the occasion mentioned.
Though Mitra, 74, didn’t contest the just lately held Assembly elections, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee handed the Finance portfolio to Mitra, who has held the put up since 2011, when the TMC first got here to energy in Bengal.
Since he isn’t an MLA, Mitra can stay in his put up for a most of six months until he contests — and wins — a byelection.
A senior Trinamool chief mentioned on situation of anonymity, “Amit Mitra will complete six months as state finance minister in the third Mamata Banerjee cabinet on November 4. As he is a non-MLA minister, he will have to leave the post after six months or seek election through bypolls. However, he has informed the party that he does not want to continue as state minister post November 4 due to ill-health.”
The Indian Express tried to contact Mitra however he was not accessible for remark.
Sources mentioned Banerjee is more likely to hold the Finance portfolio until she finds somebody appropriate to take cost as the following Finance Minister.
Mitra was not current for the vote-on-account (interim finances) in February and in the course of the tabling of the state finances final week. Banerjee had introduced the interim finances on his behalf in February whereas state Parliamentary Affairs Minister Partha Chatterjee tabled the finances final week.
A former FICCI secretary normal, Mitra has been a part of Banerjee’s decision-making staff since 2009, when the TMC was a part of UPA-2.
After the occasion got here to energy in West Bengal in 2011, Mitra was made Finance Minister. He is a two-time MLA from Khardah constituency in North 24 Parganas. Besides finance, Mitra had additionally held the business portfolio since 2014.
