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LS Speaker accepts Mamata Banerjee's resignation as MP
The Speaker received Banerjee's resignation on October nine and it was accepted with immediate effect, Deputy Speaker Kariya Munda informed Lok Sabha. Banerjee, who heads the Trinamool Congress, resigned from the Lok Sabha seat after she was elected to the West Bengal Assembly from Bhowanipore.
Banerjee, who was Union Railway Minister, took over as Chief Minister in May after Trinamool Congress unseated the over three-decade-old Left Front government in West Bengal.
PTI
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Story first published: Wednesday, November 23, 2011, 8:00 [IST]