North Bengal development minister Rabindranath Ghosh on Tuesday visited disgruntled Trinamul MLA of Cooch Behar (South) Mihir Goswami to try and placate him.

Ghosh went to Goswami’s home for around 30 minutes.

“Mihirda is a senior leader and very much with Trinamul. The party wants leaders like him,” Ghosh said. Goswami, however, said he did not think he “deserved to stay in Trinamul anymore”.

In October, Goswami, who has been with Trinamul since its inception, said he was withdrawing from all political responsibilities assigned to him by the party as he didn’t like the way the party worked.

More recently, he posted on social media: “This party is no longer in the hands of Mamata Banerjee……thus, it cannot be my party.”

On Monday, he posted: “These days, the Yuvraj of Trinamul is passing strict instructions to district leaders to restrict infighting. But it is amusing to note that during the past 10 years, a section of state leaders had encouraged inner rivalry in the districts...”

Goswami on Tuesday also asserted that he stuck to his comments on social media.