West Bengal Congress chief Somen Mitra today resigned from his position. Mitra, currently in New Delhi, submitted his resignation letter in the All India Congress Committee (AICC) office. He holds the position of the president of the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee.
No new Congress president has been chosen by the party after Rahul Gandhi resigned from the post and refused to reconsider his decision despite requests from senior leaders from different parts of the country. Following Rahul Gandhi, several other Congress leaders in key positions – Jyotiraditya Scindia and Milind Deora – resigned. Mitra too followed their steps – taking responsibility for the party’s poor show in West Bengal in the Lok Sabha polls, where the Congress won only two seats. He however, told reporters that he was willing to take up any other responsibility assigned by the party.
Somen Mitra took over as the president of the West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee for the second time in 2018. He has been a Congress MLA from Sealdah for several terms. Subsequently, he left the Congress and formed his own party. Later, his party merged with the Trinamool Congress and in 2009, he won from the Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha constituency on a Trinamool Congress ticket. He rejoined the Congress in 2014 after resigning from the MP post. He took over as the state president for the second time in 2018.
