Amid theories flying thick and fast in the Trinamool Congress over the sudden resignation of Arpita Ghosh a party Rajya Sabha MP the parliamentarian on Thursday said she had not been under pressure to put in her papers and that the “decision to resign was very much my personal decision.”
The dramatist-turned-TMC leader was a two-time Lok Sabha MP from the party before she was defeated by the BJP candidate from Balurghat constituency in 2019. She was subsequently sent to the Rajya Sabha.
When asked to comment on the reason behind her sudden resignation, Ghosh said that she wanted to “concentrate more on the organizational work and my theatre which was getting hampered … and so I have tendered my resignation.”
When asked as to whether she was forced to resign because the party leadership was trying to vacate the seats for other bigger leaders from other States whom Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was trying to use for her national designs Ghosh said “the leadership will answer about the policy decisions … but as for my decision to resign it was solely based on my personal reasons.”
After Ghosh’s resignations there are talks inside the party that some more Upper House members may be asked to resign to make way for some national level names so as to afford the TMC and the Chief Minister a national image. Inside sources said that Ghosh was not happy at being robbed off the Rajya Sabha post. Sources also said that she had a conversation with party national secretary Abhishek Banerjee a day before the resignation.
The junior Banerjee is known to have promised a priced party post. When asked to comment on her future plans she said “in a few days you will get to know whether I am given any organizational post or not.”