Yashwant Sinha resign from TMC

Trinamool Congress (TMC) vice president Yashwant Sinha on Tuesday resigned from all party posts. In an official tweet, he said that he is stepping down for a “greater opposition unity.”

As per sources, he is likely to be pitched in as the presidential candidate from the opposition parties.

Announcing his resignation, Sinha said, “Now a time has come when for a



larger national cause I must step aside from the party to work for greater opposition unity.”

Yashanth Sinha, 84, joined TMC in 2018 after being with the Bharatiya Janata Party for over a decade. He was a union minister for finance and external affairs under the leadership of the late Prime Minister and senior BJP leader Atal Bihari Vajpayee.