KOLKATA: The Congress celebration which dominated West Bengal for 20 years since independence, misplaced its lone MLA within the state meeting, Bayron Biswas, as he crossed over to the ruling TMC on Monday, becoming a member of the celebration within the presence of its basic secretary Abhishek Banerjee. At the operate to affix the ruling celebration in Ghatal in Medinipur, Bayron claimed that the Congress to which he had owed allegiance for lengthy, had performed no function in his victory, which he mentioned he ‘received due to my goodwill.’
Bayron, an area ‘bidi’ magnate, had received the Sagardighi seat earlier this 12 months in a by-election, worsting his TMC rival, a lot to the consternation of the ruling camp. “If the Congress’ organisation was so strong in the Sagardighi assembly segment, the party would have won the seat in 2021 (state general elections). But that did not happen. I won the seat because of my goodwill,” he mentioned, including for good measure that he felt the Congress in Bengal is “averse” to combat in opposition to the BJP and which is why he had most well-liked to affix TMC.
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Predictably Bengal Congress chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Monday lashed out bitterly at Bayron Biswas for his desertion, stating, “If we had not been there with you (Bayron Biswas), you would not be what you are (an MLA) today”. TMC’s Banerjee claimed that with the becoming a member of of Biswas, the “rainbow alliance of the BJP and the Congress” to oppose the TMC has been defeated within the state.
“We all know about the unethical rainbow alliance that was forged through tacit understanding between the BJP and the Congress in Bengal. With the joining of Biswas, this rainbow alliance now stands defeated. The Congress has to decide whom they want to fight. “They cannot declare that they’re preventing in opposition to the BJP on the Centre by opposing the TMC in Bengal. This double normal has to cease,” he mentioned.
Abhishek, the nephew of Mamata Banerjee, additionally asserted that “Biswas joined the TMC as he felt that it is the only force which can fight against the BJP in Bengal”. He, nevertheless, dismissed the allegation that the TMC is attempting to complete off the Congress within the state.
Banerjee additionally reiterated an earlier declare that many senior Congress leaders and MPs are in contact with the TMC management, however the ruling celebration in Bengal, for the sake of opposition unity, has “kept its doors closed”. Biswas’s becoming a member of the TMC comes at a time when events against the BJP are attempting to forge an opposition unity within the combat in opposition to the saffron camp within the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
The desertion of the MLA doesn’t come beneath the purview of the anti-defection legislation as he’s the lone consultant of the Congress within the meeting and his becoming a member of TMC means a merger of the Congress Legislative celebration with the bigger TMC legislative celebration. Biswas’s former mentor Chowdhury mentioned the TMC was petrified after shedding Sagardighi by-polls and had used all the pieces at its disposal to poach the Congress MLA.
He blamed the TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee and her nephew and celebration MP Abhishek Banerjee for luring MLAs from different events. “Sagardighi proved that Mamata Banerjee is not invincible. She and her party can be beaten. I will say that you will be the one to suffer the most from the game (of taking in deserters from other parties you started…But, Didi, do not forget, what goes around, comes around,” he mentioned.
BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar mentioned his celebration had lengthy felt the Congress MLA might swap over to the TMC and urged voters ‘to not waste their votes by voting for the Congress or CPI (M) candidates’.
