Two dissident MLAs of the ruling BJP — Sudip Roy Barman and Ashis Kumar Saha – on Monday resigned from the Assembly and the party before leaving for Delhi to decide their next course of action.
After submitting their resignation letters to Tripura Assembly Speaker, both Roy Barman, a former Minister, and Saha told the media that they have also sent their resignation letters to the BJP’s state President Manik Saha.
“We are going to Delhi today (Monday) and will come back here on Saturday, then we will tell you everything in detail about our future political course,” Roy Barman told the media just after submitting resignation letters to Chakraborty and before leaving for the national capital.
BJP, on the other hand, downplayed the resignations of Roy Barman and Saha and said that the duo’s quit from the Assembly membership would not be any constitutional crisis in the state. “It was in the expected line that Roy Barman and Saha left from the Assembly membership and the party. They have been openly criticising the chief minister and other party leaders. Their resignation from the Assembly and the party has no importance to BJP,” state BJP spokesman Nabendu Bhattacharjee told the media.
