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Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Sushmita Dev connected Wednesday (June 10, 2026) resigned arsenic a subordinate of the Rajya Sabha, the 2nd TMC MP to resign this week.
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Ms. Dev, a erstwhile Congress person who had joined the TMC a fewer years ago, met Rajya Sabha president C.P. Radhakrishnan and resigned from the rank of the House.
She is the 2nd MP of the TMC to resign this week. Earlier, Sukhendu Sekhar Roy had tendered his resignation from the enactment arsenic good arsenic the Rajya Sabha.
Sources said Ms. Dev is apt to discontinue the TMC and articulation the BJP. She has besides met Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
In her resignation letter, she said, "I bash hereby resign from the rank of Rajya Sabha, which whitethorn delight beryllium accepted with contiguous effect."
"I convey my sincere gratitude to your excellency, hon'ble Deputy Chairman and each functionaries of the Rajya Sabha secretariat extending each assistance and practice during my tenure arsenic a subordinate of the Rajya Sabha," Ms. Dev said successful the missive to the Chairman.
The Trinamool Congress is facing a rebellion aft its decision successful the West Bengal Assembly polls, with respective enactment MPs deciding to form a abstracted radical and align with the ruling NDA.
A bulk of Trinamool’s 80 MLAs person already formed a abstracted radical led by Ritabrata Banerjee arsenic the Leader of the Opposition successful the State Assembly.
