Image Source : PTI Dinesh Trivedi mentioned he was feeling ‘suffocated’ in Mamata’s Trinamool Congress.
Dates for West Bengal meeting elections could possibly be introduced anytime quickly and simply earlier than the essential polls, Mamata Banerjee suffered one more blow. In a dramatic transfer, Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Dinesh Trivedi introduced his resignation from the House on Friday.
Speaking in Rajya Sabha, Trivedi, a former Union minister, mentioned he was feeling ‘suffocated’ and ‘helpless’ in Trinamool Congress. Pointing in direction of the continuous political violence in Bengal, Trivedi mentioned it was unhappy that he wasn’t in a position do something in regards to the scenario.
“I am resigning from the party as there is violence in my state. I am grateful to my party that it sent me here. I am feeling suffocated as we are not able to do anything about the violence in the state,” Trivedi mentioned.
“I will continue to serve the people of Bengal, but my soul tells me that if you can’t do anything sitting here, then resign,” he added.
Trinamool reacts
Soon after Trivedi’s resignation announcement, the Trinamool stopped wanting describing him as a ‘spent drive’. TMC MP Saugata Roy mentioned Trivedi was by no means a ‘grassroot’ chief. Roy additionally went on to level fingers at Trivedi’s loss within the final basic elections.
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“We didn’t know he’d resign. However, it isn’t a shock. He wasn’t a grassroots leader, had lost Lok Sabha elections. Mamata Banerjee sent him to Rajya Sabha. ‘Trinamool’ means grassroots. It’ll give chance to other grassroots workers to emerge,” Saugata Roy mentioned.
Why Dinesh Trivedi’s resignation will harm Mamata
Dinesh Trivedi is but to disclose his future plan of action however hypothesis is rife that he could be a part of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and return to Rajya Sabha from Gujarat. BJP’s Bengal in-charge Kailash Vijayvargiya has given sufficient hints of Trivedi becoming a member of the saffron brigade.
Saugata Roy could have labeled Trivedi’s resignation as insignificant however Trinamool and Mamata are effectively conscious that he performed a key position in backing the Trinamool Congress chief when she determined to stroll out of the Congress to determine her personal get together.
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Trivedi, who was as soon as seen as Mamata’s shut confidante, regularly misplaced prominence amid the expansion of native management. Trinamool’s most well-known face in Delhi, Trivedi misplaced his place to Derek O’Brien, who was named as TMC’s flooring chief in Rajya Sabha regardless of being a lot youthful to him.
It was Dinesh Trivedi who as soon as labored as a bridge between Mamata Banerjee in Bengal and the Congress-led UPA and BJP-led NDA in New Delhi. Now that he has give up, will probably be attention-grabbing to see whether or not Dinesh Trivedi campaigns towards Mamata brigade within the upcoming Bengal meeting elections.
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