Former West Bengal minister Jyotipriya Mallick resigned from his posts in the Trinamool Congress citing health concerns, PTI reported on Friday.

Mallick said that his health had deteriorated severely in the past few months and that it would be “impossible to shoulder responsibilities in the party working committee and other positions”.

Since losing the Assembly elections in May, the TMC has been facing rebellions and internal divisions.

Amid the divisions and defections, the TMC had on June 3 dissolved all its committees and organisational units in the state, saying it would undertake a “comprehensive” review of its performance and party structure.

Mallick, a five-term MLA, resigned days after TMC chief Mamata Banerjee inducted him into the party’s reconstituted working committee, PTI reported.

On Friday, the news agency quoted Mallick as saying that he has “no disillusionment” with Mamata Banerjee. “Those who have revolted against her are experienced leaders, and they must have their reasons for doing it,” he said.

He represented the Gaighata constituency between 2001 and 2011, followed by Habra. He lost the Habra seat to a BJP candidate in May.

He had served as the state food and supplies minister between 2011 and 2021. He was the forest minister from 2021 to 2024.

In October 2023, Mallick was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with an alleged ration distribution scam. He was granted bail in January 2025.

On Friday, Goutam Deb, a TMC leader from northern Bengal, resigned as the mayor of the Siliguri Municipal Corporation, ABP Ananda reported.

Crisis in the TMC

The TMC is facing a crisis at the state and the national levels.

At the state level, a group of 58 of TMC’s 80 legislators has been recognised by the Assembly speaker as the party’s legislature wing in the House. The stand taken by the group led by expelled TMC MLA Ritabrata Banerjee is being viewed as a challenge to Mamata Banerjee, who is supporting another legislator as the leader of the Opposition in the Assembly.

On Thursday, the Calcutta High Court declined to grant interim relief in a petition challenging the speaker’s decision to recognise Ritabrata Banerjee as the leader of the Opposition.

At the national level, TMC leader Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar on Sunday said that 20 of the party’s 28 Lok Sabha MPs will merge with the Tripura-based Nationalist Citizens Party and back the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance in the Lower House of Parliament.

The Lok Sabha speaker had asked TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee “to present his case” against the Dastidar-led faction’s decision on Friday.

Three of the TMC’s Rajya Sabha MPs had resigned last week, and two of them quit the party.

The TMC mayors of Kolkata and Bidhannagar had also resigned earlier this month.

Edited by Tanya Shrivastava.

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