Not forced to resign from RS, says TMC's Arpita Ghosh

Trinamool Congress leader Arpita Ghosh on Thursday asserted that she took the decision after deliberating with the party's top leadership and was not forced by it to step down as claimed by some quarters.

A day after resigning as a Rajya Sabha MP, Trinamool Congress leader Arpita Ghosh on Thursday asserted that she took the decision after deliberating with the party's top leadership and was not forced by it to step down as claimed by some quarters.

Ghosh told reporters that she quit the Rajya Sabha as she wanted to devote more time to the organisational matters of the party.