‘Was not informed’: Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on acceptance of his resignation as Bengal Congress chief

Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury claimed on Tuesday that he had not been informed that his resignation as the party’s West Bengal unit chief had been accepted, the Hindustan Times reported.

Chowdhury told reporters that he had resigned from the post after the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, in which he lost the Baharampur Lok Sabha constituency to cricketer-turned-politician Yusuf Pathan of the Trinamool Congress by more than 85,000 votes.

Baharampur was among the few remaining Congress strongholds in West Bengal. Chowdhury represented it continuously since 1999.

A party meeting was held in Kolkata on June 21, where a resolution was passed to dissolve the working committee of the Congress’ West Bengal unit, including the post of state president, India Today reported. The meeting was attended by West Bengal Congress in-charge Ghulam Ahmad Mir and other party leaders.

On Tuesday, Chowdhury claimed that he realised he had been removed from his post when Mir referred to him as the party’s “former president” during another meeting on Monday.

“The day Mallikarjun Kharge became the party president, all other posts of the party in the country became temporary, according to the Constitution of the party,” he said, according to India Today. “Even my post became temporary.”

“Kharge ji didn’t reply to my [resignation] letter,” Chowdhury claimed. “If accepted, I should be informed as per courtesy.”

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