Overview
- Mosaraf Hussen, the Itahar MLA, announced on Sunday that he has resigned as president of the Trinamool Congress’s West Bengal state minority cell.
- He said personal reasons, including his mother’s recent illness, and the changed political circumstances after the BJP formed the state government made it difficult for him to continue in the post.
- Hussen confirmed he has held talks with the rebel grouping led by Ritabrata Banerjee but denied formal alignment with either TMC faction while praising Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari and expressing a wish to help development under the new leadership.
- Local shifts are already visible in North/Uttar Dinajpur where four of five TMC MLAs have joined Ritabrata Banerjee’s rebel camp, a realignment that adds pressure on party organization and outreach to minority voters.
- The rapid turnover in the minority-cell post matters because that role is central to TMC outreach to religious minority communities and its loss could change local political calculations as the state’s first BJP budget is presented.