The Trinamul Congress’s Rajarhat-New Town MLA and Bidhannagar mayor Sabyasachi Dutta yet again rubbed his party the wrong way on Friday by participating in agitation against the Mamata Banerjee government and daring the organisation to act against him.

Dutta, who joined a protest programme of a Trinamul-backed labour union in the state-run power sector in Salt Lake, condemned the government for not fulfilling the longstanding demands for increase in salaries and clearance of pending dearness allowance in the sector.

The MLA delivered an address directly attacking state power minister Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay and, indirectly, the Trinamul government.

“The department is called power. But the minister has no power,” said Dutta.

Broaching the subject of going against the party line, Dutta said people were free to feel that way. “If I am saying anti-party things, take action against me. I have no objection,” he added.

Power minister Chattopadhyay said he would complain to Mamata.