KOLKATA: Former Bengal minister and rebel Trinamool Congress MLA Suvendu Adhikari resigned from the assembly on Wednesday, more than a fortnight after he quit the state cabinet and said it had become “difficult to work together” in a party he described as a “one-person” organisation. Although Adhikari remains a primary member of TMC, his loyalists say the disgruntled party veteran is set to cross over to BJP during Union home minister Amit Shah’s public rally in Midnapore this Saturday.
Adhikari, who reached the assembly around 3.55pm to submit his resignation letter to speaker Biman Banerjee, requested “immediate acceptance” of his decision to quit. He also wrote to governor Jagdeep Dhankhar for his “intervention”, citing apprehensions about “political vendetta” in the form of “unleashing police repression by implication in criminal cases”.
Buddhadeb discharged from hospital
Former Bengal chief minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was discharged from the hospital on Tuesday, almost a week after he was admitted following breathing troubles.
Bhattacharjee will however have to remain on non- invasive ventilation (BIPAP) support, undergo physiotherapy and follow restrictions on movement at home, besides sticking to a prescribed diet, doctors said.
The veteran communist leader was admitted to a private hospital in Calcutta on December 9 and put on mechanical ventilator support at its critical care unit, after his breathing-related problems escalated.
The 76-year-old former chief minister s health parameters improved subsequently, following which doctors took the call to discharge him on Tuesday.