TMC leader Tarak Singh resigns as mayor-in-council of KMC

TMC leader Tarak Singh on Tuesday said he resigned as the mayor-in-council of Kolkata Municipal Corporation, claiming he was unable to perform his work properly in the sewerage and drainage department. Singh is a TMC councillor of ward number 118 in southwest Kolkata. "I am not able to complete my mission of freeing Kolkata of waterlogging in heavy rain," he told reporters. Expressing his displeasure with a section of TMC leaders, Singh said that some statements made by them during the campaign for the West Bengal assembly elections should have been avoided. He had not attended a key meeting of the TMC's councillors called by party supremo Mamata Banerjee after the declaration of the results of the West Bengal assembly elections, which the BJP won and formed its first government in the state.