Former Silchar MP and Rajya Sabha member Sushmita Dev on June 10 confirmed that she has left the All India Trinamool Congress, a day after resigning from the Upper House on June 9, a move that has intensified speculation about her next political destination. Speaking to reporters, Dev said, “I have left Trinamool Congress. It is a long story why I left TMC. I don’t want to be in a situation where I am in two boats at the same time. I will not comment on Mamata Didi.”
Dev’s brief public statement is the first clear confirmation of her departure from the party led by Mamata Banerjee, but she declined to elaborate on the reasons behind her decision. The timing of her exit — immediately after quitting the Rajya Sabha — has fuelled conjecture about a possible switch to the Bharatiya Janata Party, particularly after reports that she met Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma in New Delhi shortly after submitting her resignation. No formal announcement of any new affiliation has been made.
The development is notable given Dev’s political trajectory. The daughter of the late Congress leader Santosh Mohan Dev, she represented Silchar in Assam’s Barak Valley as a Congress MP from 2014 to 2019. After losing the 2019 Lok Sabha election, she left the Congress in 2021 and joined the Trinamool Congress as part of the party’s push to expand beyond West Bengal. Within a short span she became one of TMC’s more visible national figures, serving as the party’s national spokesperson and later as a Rajya Sabha member.
Dev’s resignation comes amid a period of turbulence for the TMC: earlier this week another senior leader and Rajya Sabha MP, Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, also resigned from the Upper House and severed ties with the party, accusing it of corruption and governance failures in his resignation letter. Those back-to-back departures have raised questions about internal cohesion within the Trinamool Congress and given opposition parties fresh talking points.
For Assam politics, Dev’s next move could carry weight. As a high-profile leader from the Barak Valley, any alignment with the BJP would represent a second major party switch within five years and could strengthen the BJP’s outreach in southern Assam ahead of the 2029 Lok Sabha elections. For now, however, Dev has confirmed only that she has left the TMC and has not disclosed her future plans.
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Publish Date: 2026-06-10 13:01:00
