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Darjeeling: Trinammol Congress has launched an agitation in Siliguri, demanding the resignation of CPI(M) leader Asok Bhattacharya from the post of Siliguri Municipal Corporation Mayor. This comes in the wake of Bhattacharya's visit to China, while the town is grappling with a dengue outbreak. Under such conditions we demand immediate resignation of Bhattacharya from the post of Mayor," stated Ranjan Sarkar, TMC Councillor and president, Darjeeling District TMC (plains). It may be mentioned that the Siliguri Municipal Corporation, having 47 wards, is under the rule of the Left Front, backed by Congress. TMC councillors staged a sit-in demonstration in front of the Mayor's chamber and also burnt his effigy..