Via PTI
KOLKATA: BJP has now not given price ticket to Soumendu Adhikari, who had joined the saffron birthday celebration following the footsteps of his elder brother and Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, for the February 27 municipal ballot in Kanthi elevating eyebrows in political circles in West Bengal.
With this Kanthi municipality in Purba Medinipur district won’t have a contestant from the Adhikari circle of relatives for the primary time in 3 a long time.
Soumendu Adhikari used to be a former chairman of the municipality sooner than he joined BJP in January 2021.
He have been its administrator until 2020 after the civic frame’s time period had expired a 12 months in the past.
Soumendu, who’s the secretary of BJP’s Kanthi organisational committee, rubbished speculations in political circles about his now not being fielded via the birthday celebration.
“We (BJP) do not consider within the tradition of vesting the accountability of working a municipalty to the similar circle of relatives eternally. For me this is dynastic politics and BJP does now not consider in it,” he mentioned.
Taking a swipe on the ruling TMC, Soumendu mentioned “We (BJP) don’t seem to be a non-public restricted corporate like any other birthday celebration. We can win Kanthi if there’s no intimidation or terror on election day”.
Throughout the marketing campaign for the 2021 state ballot BJP had regularly described TMC as a non-public restricted corporate run via its supremo Mamata Banerjee and her nephew and birthday celebration basic secretary Abhishek Banerjee.
Soumendu’s father Sisir Adhikari, an MP, used to be the chairman of Kanthi municipality from 1990 to 2005 and Suvendu Adhikari occupied the submit from 2006 to 2010.
Soumendu have been on the helm of the civic frame since then to 2020.
Senior TMC chief Firhad Hakim when requested mentioned, “Merely put he’s fearful of shedding. Therefore he does now not need to contest”.