"Took Advice From Him": Sushmita Dev On Meeting Himanta Sarma

Another Trinamool Congress MP, Sushmita Dev, has resigned as a member of the Rajya Sabha, the second party MP to resign this week. Dev, a former Congress leader who joined the TMC in 2021, said that the decision to quit was her own. 

"What prompted me to take this decision is a very long story, and in politics not everything needs to be revealed. I don't want to be in a situation where I am in two boats. I have never stayed in a party and served another. The decision is my own," she told reporters.

Asked about her meeting with Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, Sushmita Dev said, "I took advice from him." 

"Today, I am a free woman. I have known Himanta da for long now; I paid a courtesy visit to him," she said.