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NEW DELHI: After resigning from the Rajya Sabha connected Thursday, Trinamool Congress MP Prakash Chik Baraik said helium stepped down aft concluding that the mandate successful West Bengal was successful favour of the BJP.Baraik, the 3rd TMC parliamentarian to discontinue this week, besides said helium would bash "as the CM (Suvendu Adhikari) asks" and insisted that helium was "not being pressurised by BJP".His resignation deals different stroke to the Mamata Banerjee-led party, which is grappling with increasing signs of rebellion wrong its ranks.Speaking to reporters aft submitting his resignation, Baraik said, "I resigned aft considering the mandate of the radical of Bengal.
Now, I volition bash arsenic the CM (Suvendu Adhikari) asks maine to... I americium not being pressurised by BJP."Explaining his decision, helium said the electoral verdict successful West Bengal had convinced him that it was nary longer due to proceed successful his position."It tin beryllium seen that TMC doesn't person the mandate, and successful a democracy, if radical privation to marque 1 enactment win, past we should respect that. This is wherefore I person resigned," helium said.Elaborating further, Baraik said: "The mandate successful West Bengal... the verdict of the radical successful this antiauthoritarian state was successful favour of the Bharatiya Janata Party, and the enactment formed the authorities there. In my ain constituency, we did not triumph adjacent a azygous seat.
The results successful North Bengal were besides not good. Looking astatine this mandate, I felt that it was nary longer due for maine to proceed successful my position. Therefore, I resigned some from my station and from the party.""As for what lies ahead, delight hold and watch. Things volition unfold successful owed course. Look, I americium not precise old. What I volition bash successful authorities successful the aboriginal is thing that clip volition decide. Please hold and fto clip uncover the answer," helium added.Baraik met Rajya Sabha Chairman CP Radhakrishnan and submitted his resignation, sources said.In his resignation letter, the West Bengal MP wrote: "I bash hereby resign from the rank of Rajya Sabha, which whitethorn delight beryllium accepted with contiguous effect."He besides thanked the Chairman, Deputy Chairman and officials of the Rajya Sabha Secretariat for their enactment and practice during his tenure.A tribal person from West Bengal, Baraik was serving connected the Parliamentary Standing Committee connected Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and the Consultative Committee connected Tribal Affairs.Third TMC MP To Quit This WeekBaraik's resignation comes amid a bid of high-profile exits from the Trinamool Congress.On Wednesday, erstwhile Union curate and Rajya Sabha MP Sushmita Dev resigned from some the enactment and the Upper House. Explaining her decision, she said she did not privation to beryllium "in 2 boats astatine the aforesaid time.""I don't privation to beryllium successful a concern wherever I americium successful 2 boats astatine the aforesaid time. That is not the close mode to bash it...
because with the household inheritance and upbringing I have, I person ne'er stayed successful 1 enactment and served different party," she said.When asked astir reports of joining the BJP, Dev said, "When I instrumentality a decision, I volition fto you know."Her consequent gathering with Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma further fuelled speculation astir her adjacent governmental move.Earlier this week, Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Ray besides resigned from the Upper House and aboriginal discontinue the Trinamool Congress, citing differences with the enactment leadership.Rebellion Deepens Within TMCWith Baraik's resignation, the TMC has present mislaid 3 Rajya Sabha MPs successful a substance of days, adding to the challenges facing the enactment aft its decision successful the West Bengal Assembly elections.The enactment is besides grappling with an interior rebellion that has weakened its parliamentary and organisational structure.Sources successful the rebel campy assertion they person secured the enactment of astatine slightest 19 Lok Sabha MPs — much than two-thirds of the party's spot successful the House — and are preparing to involvement assertion to the party's parliamentary wing.The determination mirrors developments successful the West Bengal Assembly, wherever a bulk of rebel MLAs person already taken power of the party's legislative wing.The rebel bloc is expected to align with the BJP-led NDA astatine the Centre. Among the names being linked to the radical are respective salient TMC MPs, including Saayoni Ghosh and Mala Roy, some considered adjacent to Mamata Banerjee.Rebel MP Satabdi Roy said, "I bash not cognize whether Saayoni has signed (the missive from the rebel bloc to the Speaker), but the others did."Sources besides indicated that rebel MPs and MLAs whitethorn jointly involvement assertion to the Trinamool Congress, a strategy akin to the 1 adopted by breakaway factions of the Shiv Sena and NCP successful Maharashtra, some of which were aboriginal recognised by the Election Commission arsenic the archetypal parties and subsequently aligned with the BJP.This mentation removes repetition, tightens the narrative, and places the rebellion space successful a abstracted conception for a cleaner quality flow.
