All India Mahila Congress president and former MP from Silchar Sushmita Dev resigned from the Congress Sunday, and joined Trinamool Congress (TMC) in presence of TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee. Inducting Dev into the party, TMC tweeted, “We warmly welcome the former President of All India Mahila Congress Sushmita Dev to our Trinamool family!”The resignation of Dev — who is the daughter of seven-time parliamentarian Santosh Mohan Dev and considered the face of the Congress in Assam’s largely Bengali-speaking Barak Valley — comes as a big blow to the Congress. We warmly welcome the former President of All India Mahila Congress @sushmitadevinc to our Trinamool family! pic.twitter.com/JXyMJLIf52 — All India Trinamool Congress (@AITCofficial) August 16, 2021In a letter to Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, Dev did not mention why she was resigning but said that she cherished her “three-decade-long association” with the party. Following Dev’s resignation, senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal tweeted: “Sushmita Dev Resigns from primary membership of our Party.

Source: Indian Express August 16, 2021 04:25 UTC