Kolkata, Nov 10 (PTI) West Bengal Advocate-General Soumendra Nath Mookherjee on Friday mailed his resignation to Governor Dr CV Ananda Bose, a Raj Bhavan official said.

Mookherjee is currently abroad, the official added.

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"We received a mail from Mookherjee in which he tendered his resignation," the official said.

Mookherjee was appointed as the AG after Kishore Datta resigned from the post in September 2021.

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He is the son of Satyabrata Mookherjee, who was a BJP minister in prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's cabinet.

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