Bengal BJP chief Rajib Banerjee, a former state minister who walked out of the TMC forward of the Assembly polls earlier this yr, on Tuesday warned members of his new occasion over a social media publish that “people will not take kindly to threats of President’s rule” in opposition to a authorities elected with an enormous mandate. Banerjee, after quitting the TMC in January, had claimed that he was compelled to achieve this as a piece of occasion leaders “humiliated him for airing his grievances over their style of functioning”.
The former legislator, who skipped a gathering of the state BJP management in the course of the day over post-poll violence, mentioned everybody ought to rise above politics and stand beside the individuals of the state, amid the disaster attributable to the COVID-19 pandemic and cyclone Yaas. “People will not take kindly to it if, for the sake opposing a government elected with huge popular support, threats of Delhi and Article 356 (President’s rule) are used at the drop of a hat.
“We ought to rise politics and stand by the individuals of Bengal, who’ve been devastated by COVID and Yaas,” Banerjee, who failed to bag the Domjur seat in Howrah district, tweeted. Several TMC turncoats have, over the past few weeks, expressed their willingness to rejoin the Mamata Banerjee camp — prominent among them being former MLAs Sonali Guha and Dipendu Biswas.
Some others have also been reportedly sending feelers to the party leadership, hoping to return. With TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee recently visiting senior BJP leader Mukul Roy’s ailing wife in hospital, speculation is rife about a possible change in equation between them.
Roy, once the national general secretary of the TMC – a post currently held by Abhishek — joined the BJP in 2017. He was conspicuous by his absence in Tuesday’s meeting called by the state BJP leadership.
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