New Delhi, July 4 -- In yet another major blow to Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress (TMC) faction, leader Chandrima Bhattacharya resigned from all posts of the party, including that of the TMC's West Bengal president. This fuelled speculations that she may soon join the expanding camp of TMC rebels.

TMC chief and former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday announced that she will also assume the role of the party's state unit president and inducted Madan Mitra and Kunal Ghosh into the state committee as General Secretaries.

The move came barely a month after Bhattacharya was entrusted with the responsibility, deepening the crisis engulfing the TMC following its crushing defeat in the Assembly elections.

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