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”.