TMC MP Dinesh Trivedi resigns from RS, set to join BJP

Trinamool Congress MP Dinesh Trivedi on Friday resigned from his Rajya Sabha seat just a couple of months before the assembly polls in West Bengal, and is all set to join BJP. Trivedi said he felt suffocated in the party which is "no longer in hands of" its supremo Mamata Banejee. His resignation came two days after he had endorsed Prime Minister Modi's speech in Lok Sabha in which he called for a key role of the private sector. Trivedi, who represented West Bengal in Rajya Sabha for the third time and was a former railway minister, announced his resignation in the house during a debate on the Union Budget, saying he cannot speak about the violence in his state.