Prakash Chik Barik with TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee. File Photograph: X/@ChikPrakash
In one other jolt to the Trinamool Congress, its third Rajya Sabha member, Prakash Chik Barik, resigned from the Higher Home and likewise from the social gathering organisation on Thursday (June 11, 2026).
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Mr. Barik, who was additionally a Minister within the Cupboard of former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, submitted his resignation letter to the Vice President C.P. Radhakrishnan on Thursday (June 11, 2026) morning. Nonetheless, he did not specify any cause behind the choice.
The 46-year-old chief from Alipurduar was elected within the Higher Home on August 19, 2023. His tenure was more likely to be over on August 18, 2029. Mr. Barik had additionally contested the Lok Sabha election in 2024 from Alipurduar (ST) constituency however in the end misplaced to BJP’s Manoj Tigga.
“Individuals have given a transparent mandate. Individuals have favoured the BJP over TMC. Our social gathering’s outcome was not even good in northern Bengal. I’ve resigned in view of the folks’s mandate. I’ve not spoken to Mamata Banerjee as of now. However I’ve resigned from each the Rajya Sabha and the social gathering organisation. I’ll work as per CM Suvendu Adhikari’s directions sooner or later. I’ll work for the event,” stated Mr. Barik whereas sitting on the official residence of BJP MP from Jharkhand’s Godda, Nishikant Dubey, in Delhi’s Safdarjang after the resignation.
Earlier, two different MPs, Sushmita Dev and Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, resigned on Wednesday (June 10, 2026) and Monday (June 8, 2026), respectively. They’d additionally resigned from the social gathering organisation.
With Mr. Baraik’s resignation, the social gathering’s power within the Rajya Sabha is ready to fall to 10 MPs from the whole 13.
The disaster additionally unfolded at a time when hypothesis continued that no less than 20 MPs representing the social gathering within the Decrease Home, led by Kakali Ghosh Dastidar and Shatabdi Roy, additionally submitted a letter to the Speaker Om Birla, claiming the popularity of a separate bloc that may help the Nationwide Democratic Alliance (NDA)-led by the BJP.
In the meantime, the social gathering can be going through one other revolt in its Meeting staff led by the expelled MLA Ritabrata Banerjee, who has claimed the help of 60 of the social gathering’s 80 MLAs, who’ve apparently proposed his title because the Chief of Opposition in Bengal as an alternative of Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay.
Printed – June 11, 2026 12:24 pm IST
