A few days after resigning as Trinamool Congress’s Barasat district president, veteran TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar—a close aide of Mamata Banerjee—stepped down from all organisational posts within the party. The development came hours after the four-time MP from Barasat Lok Sabha constituency attended a key administrative meeting chaired by Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari.

“But with great sadness and concern, I am requesting to resign from the post of Chairperson of the All India Trinamool Mahila Congress, as well as from other organisational posts, committees and responsibilities of the party,” Ghosh Dastidar wrote in her resignation letter.

It is not meaningful to hold a position where the indecent behaviour of another uneducated, rude party MP towards a woman MP cannot be stopped, or the cooperation and sympathy of the senior leadership cannot be obtained,” she added, taking a clear jibe at lawyer-politician and Trinamool MP from Serampore Lok Sabha constituency, Kalyan Banerjee, who was reinstated as the party chief whip in Lok Sabha, replacing Ghosh Dastidar after TMC’s poll rout.

The resignation provided a major blow to Trinamool Congress amid the poll debacle, as Dastidar had long been considered a key aide of party supremo Mamata Banerjee, holding a good grip over the party organisation in the North 24 Parganas, which was once considered a strong urban bastion for the party. Alongside maintaining close ties with party cadres, Kakoli also raised her voice in parliament, often attacking the BJP-ruled central government.

Source: India Today