Popular leader, Salt Lake-New Town Mayor and Trinamool MLA Sabyasachi on Thursday resigned from his mayoral post roundly criticising Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for shunning the path of popular struggle.
Dutta, one of the many Mukul Roy loyalists in the TMC also joined the anti-Government State primary teachers' movement addressing a mass meeting in Kolkata where he said "I have always been inspired by Mamata Banerjee's fighting ways" reminding "she always used to stand by the farmers and workers when she was the opposition leader." However he rued "today things have changed and we do not see her in that combative role."
Dutta who for all practical purposes resigned from his post in the wake of an alienation he suffered in the Board with most councilors siding with the party leadership, told the media after his resignation that he "could not continue in the wake of corruption and large-scale land grab which I tried to stop but couldn't."
On whether he would now join the BJP he said, "time will only tell," but still he was a member of the TMC.