Barasat, May 24 -- Trinamool Congress MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar on Sunday resigned as the TMC's district president of the Barasat Parliamentary constituency, taking responsibility for the party's failure in the Assembly elections in the area.

Dastidar told reporters, "Considering the outcome of the elections here, there might be some lapse in the way I worked for the party, so I want someone who can perform the job even better than I can to step forward."

Dastidar slammed the I-PAC, the consultancy firm working for the TMC in the elections, saying, "The way this organisation has worked, put pressure on us, this is not the way to work. Wherever they go, they will produce dangerous results in the elections."

Tendering her resignation from...