NEW DELHI: Former RS member Chandan Mitra on Tuesday quit the Bharatiya Janata Party, however he has chosen to remain mum on the future course of action.

"I have given resignation. I have not decided when or where I will join, I am not going to disclose it," the former Rajya Sabha MP for Rajasthan was quoted as saying by ANI.

Mitra was nominated as a member of Rajya Sabha from 2003 to 2009. In 2010, he was elected to another term in Rajya Sabha, as a BJP MP from Madhya Pradesh.

Though there was no word from him about his next move, sources said he may join the TMC with a leader from the regional party saying that Mitra is likely to be present at the party's 'martyrs' day' rally in Kolkata on July 21.

Considered close to veteran BJP leader L K Advani, Mitra was nominated to the Upper House in 2003 when the BJP-led NDA was in power at the Centre and again elected to the House in 2010 from Madhya Pradesh on the party's ticket.

However, his political stock within the party plunged under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP president Amit Shah, and he was left with little organisational responsibility.

He was fielded as the party's candidate from Hooghly in West Bengal in the 2014 Lok Sabha election and came a distant third.

(With inputs from PTI)

