India, July 4 -- Mamata Banerjee loyalist Chandrima Bhattacharya cited being blamed by the former West Bengal chief minister for rebel MLA factions' takeover of party's office in Kolkata - Trinamool Bhavan - as the reason for her resignation from all posts on Saturday.

Chandrima Bhattacharya resigned from all TMC posts on Saturday, a day after rebel TMC legislators, headed by Ritabrata Banerjee, on Friday occupied the party's multi-storey rented office in Kolkata off the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass, saying they represented the "original TMC."

In her resignation letter, Bhattacharya addressed Mamata Banerjee as the former chief minister and not as the TMC chairperson, HT earlier reported.

On June 3, the rebel TMC legislators recognised ...