Overview
- Dastidar resigned from her role as Barasat organisational district president and from the party’s women’s wing on Monday after she was replaced as the TMC chief whip in the Lok Sabha.
- She blamed political consultancy firm I-PAC for creating “havoc” and said reliance on external consultants sidelined long‑time party workers.
- Dastidar cited corruption and criminalisation in West Bengal, pointed to the party’s poor showing in Barasat where TMC lost six of seven assembly seats, and said she was taking moral responsibility for the result.
- Her son said she may also step down as a Member of Parliament, and the Union Home Ministry recently upgraded her security to Y category following an Intelligence Bureau threat assessment.
- Political analysts say the unusually public criticism risks deepening a split between TMC’s veteran cadre and its newer campaign apparatus and could complicate the party’s post‑election effort to rebuild unity.