Kolkata: A day after he snubbed West Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury for questioning TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee’s loyalty to the INDIA bloc, a number of posters and hoardings of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge have been defaced with ink in entrance of the get together’s state headquarters right here on Sunday.
Unidentified individuals additionally wrote ‘agent of Trinamool Congress’ on Kharge’s posters and hoardings. Sources within the Congress stated that Chowdhury, who’s in his hometown Baharampur, expressed displeasure over the incident and requested get together staff to lodge a police criticism, which was registered, and the defaced posters have been additionally eliminated.
“The incident might have happened on Saturday night. This is the handiwork of the TMC which wants to create differences between senior Congress leaders and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury,” a celebration chief alleged.
Kharge had on Saturday snubbed Chowdhury whereas responding to a question on Mamata Banerjee’s remark that if the INDIA bloc varieties the federal government, she would assist it from exterior, and Chowdhury’s comment that she can’t be trusted and that she would possibly go along with the BJP.
“Mamata Banerjee is with the alliance. She has recently said that she will join the government. Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury will not take the decision. The decision will be taken by me and the high command and those who don’t agree will go out,” Kharge had stated.
He had additionally asserted that Chowdhury is nobody to determine on whether or not Banerjee could be a part of the INDIA bloc within the occasion of the anti-BJP alliance coming to energy after the Lok Sabha polls.
Chowdhury, whereas reacting to Kharge’s feedback, had stated, referring to the TMC supremo, “I cannot speak in favour of someone who wants to finish me and our party in Bengal politically. This is a battle for every Congress worker. I have spoken on their behalf. I don’t want the state Congress to be used for her (Banerjee’s) personal agenda and then finish the organisation.”
“If Kharge ji speaks against my views, I will continue to speak for Congressmen at the grassroots in the state,” he added.
The TMC is contesting the Lok Sabha elections alone within the state, whereas the Congress and the Left are collectively combating the polls.
