I want to resign from LS, says Trinamool's singer MP

Kolkata: Noted Bengali singer Kabir Suman, who is a Trinamool Congress MP, on Tuesday said that he wanted to resign from the Lok Sabha.

"I would like to submit my resignation to the honourable Speaker of the Lok Sabha. I shall also tell Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about my decision. I don't want to continue as an MP and I've decided to withdraw myself. Now tell me what to do," Suman said in an interview with a local television channel.

"I am a simple person and I don't believe in tricks. I wonder how people survive with mere trickery," he said, in reaction to Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee's remarks where she called Suman a "guest in the party".

Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that Suman was never a Trinamool Congress worker.

"He was a civil society representatives and he's a guest in our party. We respect him for his creative talent," Banerjee had told reporters after her party's core committee meeting on Monday evening.

Suman contested from Kolkata's adjoining South 24-Parganas' Jadavpur constituency, trouncing the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) heavyweight Sujan Chakraborty in April-May general elections in 2009.

"I am grateful to the people that I don't belong to any political party," Suman said.

Earlier, the singer-turned-politician had criticised various political parties, including his own Trinamool Congress, saying that he could not see any difference between the CPI-M and the opposition in misusing funds allocated for development work.