Kolkata:Trinamool Congress’s Rajya Sabha member Srinjoy Bose quit as member of parliament as also from the party on Thursday, a day after getting bail in a case related to the Saradha chit fund scam. Politics is “not my cup of tea”, he said.
Bose, who spent 75 days in police and jail custody after his arrest by the Central Bureau of Investiga-tion (CBI) in connection with the Saradha chit fund scam, announced his decision to quit as an MP and also from the primary membership of Trinamool in a media release here.
“I would like to inform that with immediate effect, I have resigned from my membership of the Rajya Sabha. I have also decided to resign from the primary membership of the party – the Trinamool Congress,” he said in the release.
Bose, editor of his party’s mouthpiece Jago Bangla and vernacular newspaper Sambad Pratidin, said it was during his days in custody that he understood “politics is not my cup of tea”.
He also said pressure from his family shaped his decision. “During my days in custody, I finally realised that politics is not my cup of tea.
There has also been a lot of pressure from my family, specially from my mother and my wife which finally made me take the decision,” the release said.
Bose, however, thanked Trinamool supremo and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for making him an MP.”I would also like to express my deepest gra-titude and thanks to all persons who have stood by my family during these extremely difficult times.”(PTI)
