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  • BJP’s North Bengal MLA Suman Kanjilal joins TMC

    By means of Specific Information Provider

    KOLKATA: In a jolt to BJP’s north Bengal stronghold, an MLA from Alipurduar of the saffron camp on Sunday defected to the Trinamool Congress (TMC).

    Suman Kanjilal, a BJP MLA from the north Bengal constituency, joined the Trinamool Congress in presence of Abhishek Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress’s nationwide common secretary and nephew of West Bengal leader minister Mamata Banerjee.  

    With the defection of Kanjilal, BJP’s power within the Meeting has come all the way down to 69 from 77 as 5 different MLAs had joined the ruling TMC previous. Two MPs, who had contested within the 2021 Meeting elections and gained, made up our minds to serve as as representatives within the decrease area of the Parliament.

    “As an MLA, I wish to paintings for the typical other folks. I mentioned it with the executive minister. I made up our minds to enroll in the TMC to paintings higher for the folks. I sought after to accomplish extra when I used to be a BJP MLA the usage of the schemes of the Union govt. However I may just now not as a result of many tasks have been stalled via the BJP-led Centre,’’ stated Kanjilal.

    Kanjilal’s exchange in political allegiance is alleged to be vital forward of the panchayat elections within the state.

    Regardless that the TMC had secured a sweeping victory via bagging 214 seats out of 292 within the 2021 Meeting polls, the birthday party failed to go away a footprint within the Alipurduar district because the BJP secured victory in all 5 seats.

    “The individuals who voted for the BJP within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and 2021 Meeting polls are disenchanted. They realised there’s no selection political pressure instead of the TMC which is able to be offering just right governance,” stated a senior TMC chief, including that there have been extra surprises looking forward to the BJP in North Bengal.

    Within the 2019 common elections, the BJP bagged 18 seats out of 42 in Bengal of which seven have been from north Bengal.

    KOLKATA: In a jolt to BJP’s north Bengal stronghold, an MLA from Alipurduar of the saffron camp on Sunday defected to the Trinamool Congress (TMC).

    Suman Kanjilal, a BJP MLA from the north Bengal constituency, joined the Trinamool Congress in presence of Abhishek Banerjee, the Trinamool Congress’s nationwide common secretary and nephew of West Bengal leader minister Mamata Banerjee.  

    With the defection of Kanjilal, BJP’s power within the Meeting has come all the way down to 69 from 77 as 5 different MLAs had joined the ruling TMC previous. Two MPs, who had contested within the 2021 Meeting elections and gained, made up our minds to serve as as representatives within the decrease area of the Parliament.

    “As an MLA, I wish to paintings for the typical other folks. I mentioned it with the executive minister. I made up our minds to enroll in the TMC to paintings higher for the folks. I sought after to accomplish extra when I used to be a BJP MLA the usage of the schemes of the Union govt. However I may just now not as a result of many tasks have been stalled via the BJP-led Centre,’’ stated Kanjilal.

    Kanjilal’s exchange in political allegiance is alleged to be vital forward of the panchayat elections within the state.

    Regardless that the TMC had secured a sweeping victory via bagging 214 seats out of 292 within the 2021 Meeting polls, the birthday party failed to go away a footprint within the Alipurduar district because the BJP secured victory in all 5 seats.

    “The individuals who voted for the BJP within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls and 2021 Meeting polls are disenchanted. They realised there’s no selection political pressure instead of the TMC which is able to be offering just right governance,” stated a senior TMC chief, including that there have been extra surprises looking forward to the BJP in North Bengal.

    Within the 2019 common elections, the BJP bagged 18 seats out of 42 in Bengal of which seven have been from north Bengal.

  • Twenty BJP leaders in Bengal’s Jalpaiguri surrender from posts, allege irregularities in native panel formation 

    By way of PTI

    JALPAIGURI: Days after BJP MP Arjun Singh rejoined the Trinamool Congress, a minimum of 20 saffron birthday celebration leaders in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri have tendered resignation in combination from their birthday celebration posts, accusing the district management of taking cash in lieu of inducting individuals in a neighborhood panel, a birthday celebration functionary stated on Wednesday.

    The dissent leaders, together with birthday celebration’s Jalpaiguri district common secretary Amal Roy, claimed that those that had labored for the saffron brigade and fled their properties because of the post-poll violence within the state didn’t get a spot within the newly shaped Maynaguri South Mondal committee.

    Roy alleged that the posts of the native panel had been passed out in lieu of cash to people who have been inducted into the birthday celebration not too long ago.

    “The dissent leaders have submitted their resignation letters to the district leader,” he claimed.

    When contacted BJP’s Jalpaiguri district president Bapi Goswami refused to make any remark at the allegations.

    The advance got here weeks after Union House Minister Amit Shah, throughout his talk over with to West Bengal, had suggested the BJP state unit to beef up the birthday celebration organisation in an effort to submit a battle in opposition to the ruling birthday celebration.

    BJP’s state unit spokesperson Shamik Bhattacharya denied the allegation of latest individuals being inducted into the native committee in lieu of cash however admitted that there are “variations of opinion within the organisation” “The birthday celebration will glance into the topic and the issue can be taken care of out quickly,” he stated.

    Particularly, Jalpaiguri is a stronghold of the BJP because the birthday celebration bagged 4 of 7 constituencies within the district within the remaining meeting elections.

    Singh had on Might 22 rejoined the state’s ruling birthday celebration.

    One of the vital distinguished Hindi-speaking leaders of the TMC, Singh had joined the saffron camp forward of the Lok Sabha polls in 2019, and went directly to win the Barrackpore Lok Sabha seat.

    The BJP within the state has been preventing exhausting to stay its flock in combination after former Union minister Babul Supriyo and 5 legislators, together with nationwide vice-president Mukul Roy, converted to the TMC because the meeting ballot effects remaining 12 months.

    A number of senior TMC leaders like Rajib Banerjee and Sabyasachi Dutta, who had joined the saffron camp, too, returned to the Mamata Banerjee-led birthday celebration.

  • Forward of Union House Minister Amit Shah’s discuss with, Bengal BJP faces warmth of discontent

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    KOLKATA: Not up to every week to head Union House Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to discuss with the state, the BJP’s West Bengal unit persisted to stand the warmth of discontent inside the celebration as 15 functionaries of Barasat organisational committee in Kolkata’s adjacent North 24 Parganas district tendered resignation in a single move on Sunday.

    The dissent a few of the celebration leaders surfaced at a time when the BJP prime command issued a dictate directing the state bankruptcy to rejuvenate the celebration’s inside dispute and increase united symbol forward of Shah’s discuss with ranging from Might 4.

    The saffron camp had began going through erosion inside the celebration for the reason that debacle within the by-elections, by which the celebration did not retain the Asansol Lok Sabha seat.

    3 MLAs, together with the state secretary, had stepped down from the state hierarchy and 14 district degree functionaries in Nadia had tendered resignation inside 48 hours of the result of the by-elections reflecting the saffron camp’s deficient display.       

    “All of the dissidents expressed their discontent in opposition to the district president accusing him of favoritism and raising “incompetent” faces shunning the celebration’s previous and dependable staff. They, together with a Mandal president, additionally held the highest management of the district committee for failing to win a unmarried ward in Barasat civic frame,” mentioned a senior BJP chief.

    Within the mass resignation letter, the dissident BJP staff accused Tapas Mitra of being curious about anti-party actions.

    “He now not handiest gave precedence to people who are as regards to him. But even so, he’s hand in gloves with Trinamool Congress leaders and helped our competitors to get electoral acquire within the civic polls,” mentioned Shyamal Roy, some of the functionaries who resigned on Sunday.  

    Mitra, on the other hand, denied all allegations.

    Sukanta Majumdar, BJP’s state president, mentioned, “Not one of the district committee functionaries, who tendered resignation, talked to him at the factor in their complaint. I can communicate to them and kind out the problem.”

    All through his discuss with, Shah will hang a gathering with the celebration functionaries in Kolkata on Might 6 the place the state unit will provide an explanation for the explanations in the back of the debacle within the by-elections.

    “The discontent is predicted to floor in Shah’s assembly which might not be a at ease state of affairs for the state management,” mentioned the BJP chief.

  • None turns into seasoned in a single day, Bengal BJP leader on Dilip Ghosh’s ‘new’ chief commentary 

    Through PTI

    KOLKATA: Days after BJP nationwide vice-president Dilip Ghosh stated Sukanta Majumdar, who succeeded him because the birthday celebration’s West Bengal unit president, is somewhat new for his submit, the incumbent state leader on Sunday asserted that none turns into seasoned in a single day.

    Majumdar, the MP of Balurghat in north Bengal, stated that each and every individual is new when appointed to a submit and Ghosh used to be no exception when he changed into the state birthday celebration president for the primary time in 2015.

    Ghosh, alternatively, struck a conciliatory be aware all the way through the day announcing he had supposed that being new for the submit, Majumdar will have the ability to impart a contemporary method and provides a dynamic management to the state BJP.

    Majumdar, who had declined to remark to begin with, stated: “Dilipda is a senior chief, however let me indicate that once anyone first takes over, he’s new to the submit. None turns into skilled in a single day.”

    “When Dilip-da were appointed because the state BJP head, he used to be somewhat new. It occurs to each and every occupant of each and every submit,” he advised newshounds to a query.

    Ghosh had stated on Thursday that Majumdar must take everybody alongside and the birthday celebration must paintings as a united drive so that you can combat in opposition to the alleged misrule of the Trinamool Congress.

    “Sukanta Majumdar is relatively new; it’s slightly evident that he’s taking time to regulate,” he had stated.

    His feedback had been preceded via the birthday celebration’s contemporary debacle in by-polls within the state, following which a number of senior BJP contributors hit out on the state unit management for allegedly failing to spot the “lacunae” plaguing the birthday celebration.

    Then again, Ghosh stated on Sunday: “what I supposed used to be Sukanta Majumdar being a contemporary face helming the BJP in West Bengal will have the ability to give a brand new thrust to the combat in opposition to the Trinamool Congress.”

    “Everybody has his personal taste of functioning. I’m in a position to increase all cooperation to Sukanta. We’ve got been running in unison,” he advised newshounds.

    Majumdar changed Ghosh because the state birthday celebration unit leader in September 2021, months after the BJP confronted an electoral drubbing within the meeting election.

    Then again, Ghosh changed into the nationwide vice-president then.

    The birthday celebration additionally didn’t fare neatly in later elections and its interior bickering got here to the fore.

    TMC candidate Bollywood actor Shatrughan Sinha defeated the BJP’s Agnimitra Paul via over 3,00,000 votes within the Asansol Lok Sabha by-election.

    Former Union minister Babul Supriyo, who hand over the BJP to enroll in the TMC final yr, clinched the Ballygunge meeting seat in Kolkata in a by-poll, beating his nearest CPI(M) rival via 20,228 votes.

    The BJP got here 3rd there.
     

  • Emergency like setting in West Bengal, Mamata in state of worry psychosis: BJP’s Suvendu Adhikari

    Through ANI

    KOLKATA: Chief of Opposition in West Bengal legislative Meeting Suvendu Adhikari on Friday slammed the Trinamool Congress govt over his and 4 different BJP MLAs suspension from the West Bengal meeting and stated there was once “emergency like setting” within the state.

    The BJP chief alleged that Leader Minister Mamata Banerjee was once in “worry psychosis” as she was once dealing with a constant agitation for the primary time. He additionally stated that the voice of “opposition was once being stifled”. “Emergency like setting in West Bengal. CM is in a state of worry psychosis as she’s dealing with consistent & relentless opposition for the first time. Voice of the Opposition is being stifled,” Adhikari stated in a tweet.

    He hooked up a letter gained from West Bengal Meeting Secretariat which mentioned that he has been suspended from the meeting from March 28 until the rest of the consultation which commenced on March 7.

    “I’m directed to state that on a movement followed by way of the Area on March 28, you’ve been suspended from the provider of the Area for the rest of the consultation which commenced at the seventh March, 2022,” stated the letter despatched by way of the secretary of the state meeting.

    Adhikari and 4 different BJP MLAs have been suspended from the West Bengal Meeting following a conflict with TMC MLAs at the ground of the Area over Birbhum violence. 8 folks have been killed within the Rampurhat space of West Bengal’s Birbhum closing week after a mob allegedly set homes on hearth following the killing of TMC chief Bhadu Sheikh. The case is now being probed by way of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).

  • Union minister Shantanu Thakur quits Bengal BJP’s WhatsApp teams

    By means of PTI

    KOLKATA: In a big embarrassment to BJP, Union Minister of State for Ports, Transport and Waterways Shantanu Thakur, and a pacesetter of the politically robust Matua group has give up all WhatsApp teams of the birthday party’s state unit.

    Thakur, the union minister of state for transport Tuesday informed newshounds “It sort of feels the state BJP management does now not assume we (Matuas) have crucial function throughout the group.”

    He additionally questioned if he was once of any significance to the BJP state unit to any extent further.

    Thakur, who refused to mention the rest, didn’t take telephone calls via PTI.

    His stance at the side of the transfer via 5 BJP MLAs previous ultimate month to give up birthday party WhatsApp teams puts a query mark over their long term plan of action, stated analysts.

    The 40-year-old baby-kisser is the Sanghadhipati, All India Matua Mahasangha, an influential Matua group frame.

    The Matuas who shape probably the most greatest teams within the state’s border districts of North and South 24 Parganas, Nadia and in different places have lately been break up of their balloting intentions between the BJP and the TMC.

    The scheduled caste group has substantial clout in a minimum of 4 Lok Sabha seats and 30-40 meeting seats and has sizable following in neighboring Bangladesh too.

    The Bongaon MP had a couple of days again voiced his reservation towards omission of a few MLAs of the Matua group within the reconstituted BJP state and district committees.

    He had, alternatively, stated he remained unswerving to the birthday party.

    Reacting to the advance, BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar stated “We can kind out any false impression with Shantanu Thakur.

    He’s very a lot part of the BJP circle of relatives.

    ” When requested to remark, Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy informed newshounds that the BJP had used Matua group for its personal electoral features.

    “But it surely (BJP) was once now not fascinated with their actual building.

    It’s transparent now,” he added.

    Over per week in the past 5 BJP MLAs – Mukutmoni Adhikari, Subrata Thakur, Ambica Roy, Asok Kirtania and Asim Sarkar had expressed their displeasure over their omission from the state birthday party committee and left the WhatsApp staff of MLAs of the saffron birthday party.

    Adhikari had stated that the aspirations of the folk of his constituency is probably not fulfilled via the newly shaped BJP state committee.

    Ambica Roy had, alternatively, expressed his need to rejoin the BJP WhatsApp staff on December 27, two days after quitting it and stated he would kind out any distinction with the birthday party.

    The group was once wooed via the ruling TMC within the state and BJP alike sooner than the state election and High Minister Narendra Modi had even visited Orakandi, the ancestral village of the sect’s founder Harichand Thakur right through his March 2021 talk over with to Bangladesh.