Senior TMC leader Rajib Banerjee, who recently quit the Mamata Banerjee cabinet in Bengal, on Friday resigned from the post of MLA.

Banerjee, who represented the Domjur assembly seat, met Speaker Biman Banerjee at the state Assembly and submitted his resignation letter.

“I have resigned as the MLA of the state assembly. I submitted my resignation letter to the speaker. I thank my party supremo Mamata Banerjee for providing me the opportunity to serve the masses,” Banerjee, a two-time MLA, said.

“In the days to come, I would continue to serve the people of the Domjur constituency,” he added.

Rajib Banerjee, who was the forest minister, had been keeping away from cabinet meetings. The Howrah leader met governor Jagdeep Dhankhar at Raj Bhavan last week and submitted his resignation, following which he was dismissed from the state cabinet.

The Domjur MLA is the third minister to exit Mamata’s cabinet after Suvendu Adhikari and Laxmi Ratan Shukla in less than two months. Adhikari is the only one who has formally joined the BJP so far.

Sources said Rajib had handed to Mamata’s office at her Kalighat residence the resignation letter as minister. Citing procedural lapses in the resignation, the chief minister recommended to the governor Rajib’s ouster from the cabinet and the Raj Bhavan accepted it.