<p class="title">Two-term former Rajya Sabha member Chandan Mitra has resigned from the BJP amid speculation that he may join the Trinamool Congress.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I have sent my resignation letter (to BJP)," Mitra, who is a senior journalist, told PTI.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Though there was no word from him about his next move, sources said he may join the TMC with a leader from the regional party saying that Mitra is likely to be present at the party's 'martyrs' day' rally in Kolkata on July 21.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Considered close to veteran BJP leader L K Advani, Mitra was nominated to the Upper House in 2003 when the BJP-led NDA was in power at the Centre and again elected to the House in 2010 from Madhya Pradesh on the party's ticket.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, his political stock within the party plunged under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah, and he was left with little organisational responsibility.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He was fielded as the party's candidate from Hooghly in West Bengal in the 2014 Lok Sabha election and came a distant third.</p>
<p class="title">Two-term former Rajya Sabha member Chandan Mitra has resigned from the BJP amid speculation that he may join the Trinamool Congress.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"I have sent my resignation letter (to BJP)," Mitra, who is a senior journalist, told PTI.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Though there was no word from him about his next move, sources said he may join the TMC with a leader from the regional party saying that Mitra is likely to be present at the party's 'martyrs' day' rally in Kolkata on July 21.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Considered close to veteran BJP leader L K Advani, Mitra was nominated to the Upper House in 2003 when the BJP-led NDA was in power at the Centre and again elected to the House in 2010 from Madhya Pradesh on the party's ticket.</p>.<p class="bodytext">However, his political stock within the party plunged under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah, and he was left with little organisational responsibility.</p>.<p class="bodytext">He was fielded as the party's candidate from Hooghly in West Bengal in the 2014 Lok Sabha election and came a distant third.</p>