Kolkata: The West Bengal BJP on Tuesday held a high-powered organizational assembly of its workplace bearers in Kolkata. This assembly, after the loss in state meeting elections final month, noticed absence of a number of outstanding faces of the social gathering.
However, the absence of heavyweight leaders like Mukul Roy and Rajib Banerjee is being remarked upon.
BJP state president Dilip Ghosh was fast to claim that the senior leaders’ absence on the assembly was not a matter of concern. He clarified that BJP nationwide vice-president Mukul Roy couldn’t make it as his spouse just isn’t effectively, whereas spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya’s father has handed away. TMC minister-turned-BJP chief Rajib Banerjee couldn’t attend the assembly resulting from private causes.
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Rajib, who was the forest minister within the earlier Mamata Banerjee authorities earlier than switching to the BJP in January 2021 forward of state meeting polls, is allegedly flying underneath the radar for the previous few weeks. His absence has solely added gasoline to the hearth of speculations that he may swap sides.
Last weekend, Mukul Roy’s son Subhrangshu Roy needed to thank chief minister Mamata Banerjee for reaching out to his household of their “hour of want” on a Facebook post. Roy himself was a founder-member of the TMC before quitting the fold in 2017 and rising to prominence in the saffron party.
On the sidelines of the meeting, BJP leader Rajib Banerjee took Twitter to say that imposing the president’s rule in Bengal, amplified in response to incidents of post-poll violence, would be going against the people’s mandate.
“Enough with the criticism. The folks elected the federal government with a majority, they won’t take it effectively if the specter of Section 365 is continually dangled to oppose the chief minister,” the BJP chief tweeted.
At a time when Bengal BJP is busy with its organizational meet, West Bengal meeting Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, who defeated Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram, was in a gathering at Delhi with the highest brass like house minister Amit Shah and nationwide president JP Nadda to debate varied points in regards to the state.
Mukul Roy has nevertheless mentioned that he was not knowledgeable about this assembly and couldn’t be current resulting from private causes.
The absence of high leaders speaks volumes of their doable subsequent plan of motion.
