Trinamool Congress leader Sushmita Dev has said that being the Chief Ministerial face of her party in Assam was not the condition for her joining the party.
Dev a former Congress women's cell chief on Monday left her old party of 30 years to join the TMC after a brief meeting with Trinamool national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee.
On whether she was hopeful of getting projected as her new party's Chief Ministerial candidate in Assam, Dev said her joining the TMC was 'unconditional'.
She said "my joining the All India Trinamool Congress was unconditional ... I willl follow the directions of my leadership," saying Mamata Banerjee was the most able leader on whom she had supreme faith.
"I have full confidence in madam Mamata Banerjee ... She is the most able leader and Abhishek Banerjee is the most able general," she said.
On whether she had lost confidence I Rahul Gandhi, she said, "Rahulji too is a very able leader and I have no questions on his leadership. I wish him success in future."
On Sonia Gandhi she said, "whatever I had to say about Madam Sonia ji I have already written in my letter written to her on 15 August... I had a 30-year association with the Congress... My father was a Congress leader... I am doing Congress politics since I was a student."
Earlier in a letter to Congress president Sonia Gandhi she wrote “I cherish my three-decade-long association with the Indian National Congress. May I take this opportunity to thank the party, all its leaders, members and workers who have been my memorable journey. Madam, I thank you personally for your guidance and the opportunities you gave me. I value the enriching experience.”
The daughter of Santosh Mohan Dev the late Union Minister Susmita has been a popular name in Assam’s Barak Valley and is likely to be the face of her new party in the North-eastern State where the TMC has been trying to make a desperate attempt to set foot in, in its bid to become a nationally relevant political party.