Arpita Ghosh of the Trinamul Congress has resigned from the Rajya Sabha, just a little over a year into her six-year term. She was elected to the Upper House in April 2020.

Trinamul sources in Calcutta said Ghosh had tendered her resignation at the directive of the leadership. “She will be used more in the party’s organisational affairs in Bengal. She had also expressed her willingness to work more in the state and for the organisation,” said a source.

Her resignation became public only when it was published in the Rajya Sabha bulletin on Wednesday.

Ghosh had won in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls from Balurghat. But she lost the 2019 polls from the same seat. Within a month of her defeat, she was made the president of Trinamul’s faction-ridden South Dinajpur district, but was removed within a year.

She was among the six Trinamul members ordered by the Chair to withdraw from the House for a day during the monsoon session for carrying placards and “disorderly behaviour”.