Kolkata/New Delhi: In a hardening of stands, the Trinamool Congress Saturday asked its nominee and Railway Minister Dinesh Trivedi to resign from the post, but the latter sought written instructions from party chief Mamata Banerjee.
Banerjee put the ball in the central government's court on the issue of replacing Trivedi with another party leader Mukul Roy and said she had already conveyed whatever was needed. "Now the (United Progressive Alliance) government has to decide."
"We have renominated Mukul Roy as our Rajya Sabha candidate. He is our general secretary and future railway minister," she said.
Trinamool Congress parliamentary party chief whip Kalyan Banerjee telephoned Trivedi, who has fallen out with the party leadership after raising passenger tariff in the railway budget, and asked him to make an honourable exit before he was dismissed.
"Don't ask me anything. Talk to Kalyan (Banerjee). He is the chief whip of the parliamentary party," Mamata Banerjee, who is also West Bengal chief minister, told reporters.
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