Dissent in Didi-land, minister wants to quit Cabinet

November 23, 2012 18:37

A key minister in Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government today expressed his desire to resign from the cabinet in protest against being shifted to a new portfolio in a ministerial reshuffle.

Rabindranath Bhattacharya, who had played a key role in Mamata's movement against Tata Motors' Nano car factory in Singur, was shunted to Statistics and Programme implementation from Agriculture in Wednesday's cabinet rehuffle.

"I have not accepted the new ministry which was given to me. I want to resign. I want to take retirement from politics," Bhattacharya, who skipped the state secretariat and stayed at his home at Singur in Hooghly district ever since the change in portfolio was announced, told a TV channel. Bhattacharya said he was unable to accept the ministry allotted to him in the reshuffle.

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