Kolkata, May 28: Former Rajya Sabha MP and TMC leader Santanu Sen on Thursday resigned as the party’s national spokesperson and slammed the outfit over the controversy surrounding the RG Kar rape and murder case and described the poll defeat as a public rejection of “unethical practices”.
The resignation comes at a time the TMC is battling open dissent, public recriminations and an erosion of organisational cohesion following its rout in the assembly elections.
Sen, a doctor-turned-politician and councillor of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, submitted his resignation to TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee, saying he could no longer continue defending issues that had alienated ordinary people.
“Accepting the people’s verdict, I have decided to resign from the post of national spokesperson,” Sen wrote in his letter. (PTI)
