Actor Mimi Chakraborty resigns as TMC MP, says 'politics not my cup of tea'
KOLKATA: Actor and Trinamool Congress MP Mimi Chakraborty on Thursday announced her resignation from the post hinting at her unhappiness over the party leadership in her constituency. After submitting her resignation to TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday, the MP from south Kolkata’s Jadavpur met the Bengal Chief Minister at her residence on Thursday.
“I met our party supremo. I had submitted my resignation to her on February 13. I have understood in all these years that politics is not my cup of my tea,” said Mimi after meeting Mamata. Asked if the local leadership was hampering her decision making role, the actress said, “I would not deny it.”
However, Mimi’s move would not count as her formal resignation as she has not sent it to the Lok Sabha Speaker.
Asked why she did not tender her resignation to the Lok Sabha Speaker, Mimi said, “Once I get the nod from the party, I will tender my resignation to the Speaker.”
Mimi was elected from Jadavpur constituency in 2019 contesting against CPI(M) veteran Sujan Chakrabarty.
Insiders in the TMC said Mimi’s resignation to Mamata was not surprising and it would not affect the party in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. “She was not active in the party’s regular activities for a long period. Now it depends on our party’s chairperson whether Mimi would be fielded again in the upcoming general elections,” said a TMC leader.
It was the TMC which set a trend of fielding celebrity candidates from the silver screen in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections in several constituencies and the strategy proved successful as all of them secured victory.