Shillong: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) suffered a setback in Meghalaya after senior leader George Lyngdoh resigned as the Vice President of the party on Saturday ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
In his letter to state party President Charles Pyngrope, Lyngdoh said, “This decision is driven by personal circumstances.”
“You and other esteemed leaders have been a patron to me and the ones who have always cast a light on how best to turn problems into possibilities,” Lyngdoh noted in the letter with copies to TMC General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee and TMC legislature party leader, Dr. Mukul Sangma.
Lyngdoh and eleven other Congress legislators joined the TMC in 2021 a year ahead of the Meghalaya assembly election in early 2023.
In the ensuing assembly elections the TMC pushed all its might in terms of monetary and other assistance and also sent its top leaders for campaigning which included West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerejee.
The TMC fielded in almost all the 60 seats, but eventually lost the polls miserably with just Sangma and four others winning the elections.
Lyngdoh too lost in the assembly elections.
