Summary:
Taking a dig at Bhunia, CPM MLA Sujan Chakraborty said Bhunia was forced to tender his resignation as a Congress MLA. (File)Trinamool Congress leader Manas Bhunia, who had defected to the party from Congress in September last year, resigned from his Congress MLA post on Monday in a bid to contest the upcoming Rajya Sabha election as a TMC member. “His nomination as TMC Rajya Sabha candidate would have got cancelled if he had not resigned as Congress MLA. Despite leaving the party, Bhunia had not resigned as a Congress MLA until now, after TMC supremo and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee named him as a candidate for the Rajya Sabha election. A six-time MLA from Sabang, Bhunia was also the West Bengal Pradesh Congress President from 2010 to 2011..