Sushmita Dev Kolkata/IBNS: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) has nominated its leader Sushmita Dev to Parliament’s upper house- Rajya Sabha.
We are extremely pleased to nominate @SushmitaDevAITC to the Upper House of the Parliament.@MamataOfficial's vision to empower women and ensure their maximum participation in politics shall help our society to achieve much more!
— All India Trinamool Congress (@AITCofficial) September 14, 2021
Dev, a former MP from Assam’s Silchar, joined the TMC last month after quitting the Congress.
READ: Former Congress MP Sushmita Dev joins TMC
Dev was seen actively working towards building the TMC’s organisation in Tripura where the party is aiming to keep its footprint.
In her first press conference as a TMC member, Dev had said, "I have joined the TMC without any conditions whatsoever. It is because when a new relationship is built, it can be fostered only on trust and I have complete faith in Mamata Didi."
She said, "It is not yet 24 hours that I have joined TMC but as I have travelled through the length and breadth of West Bengal, I am extremely inspired by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's vision and development in Bengal."
READ: Joined TMC without conditions, no grievance against Sonia-Rahul: Sushmita Dev
Dev, the daughter of veteran Bengali Congress leader Santosh Mohan Dev, was an MLA from Silchar between 2011 and 2014 and she was elected to the Lok Sabha in 2014.
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