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Trinamool MLA Shilbhadra Dutta quits, third exit in 2 days
India
Updated: Friday, December 18, 2020, 17:25 [IST]
New Delhi, Dec 18: Trinamool Congress Barrackpore MLA Shilbhadra Dutta has quit this morning in the third exit in two days.
Dutta, a two-term MLA, said he has sent the resignation letter to Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee by email, triggering speculations that he may join a long list of party leaders who have either joined the BJP or is willing to ahead of the assembly elections, likely in March-April.
Shilbhadra Dutta I think that I am unfit in the party in the present scenario. But, I will not resign as an MLA, he told reporters.