India, June 19 -- Senior Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader and former West Bengal minister Jyotipriya Mallick resigned from all party posts on Friday citing multiple ailments while Gautam Deb, another ex-minister and Mayor of the Siliguri Municipal Corporation (SMC), also resigned from his post.

"I have been suffering from physical ailments for a long time now. My blood sugar levels are over 350 and my kidney has also been damaged. Doctors have advised complete rest and said I cannot take any mental or physical stress. In such a situation, I request you to relieve me from duties of the national working committee," Mullick said in his letter.

Mallick was in charge of departments such as food, public distribution system and forest during th...