Now Rajib Banerjee reaches out to Trinamool leadership
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After Mukul Roy, one other key Bengal BJP chief reiterates his displeasure with the celebration
A day after Mukul Roy severed ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and joined the Trinamool Congress, one other key BJP chief, Rajib Banerjee, reached out to Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh on Saturday.
Mr. Banerjee, a former Minister within the Trinamool Congress authorities, who contested and misplaced the Assembly polls on a BJP ticket, met Mr. Ghosh at his residence in Kolkata. Though he described his assembly as a “courtesy call”, Mr. Banerjee reiterated his displeasure with the BJP and mentioned he maintained that it was not correct to threaten a authorities that has received such an enormous majority with the imposition of President’s Rule beneath Article 356.
Mr. Banerjee was one of many BJP’s prize catches earlier than the Assembly polls and the celebration had despatched a non-public jet in order that he and some different leaders might journey to Delhi and be part of the BJP. He contested from Domjur and misplaced by a margin of over 40,000 votes. Mr. Banerjee maintained that “he was with the BJP till now”, but additionally added the politics of non secular division received’t succeed within the State of West Bengal. Like Mr. Roy, Mr Banerjee has been absent at conferences of the West Bengal BJP after the outcomes of the Assembly polls have been declared.
There have been frantic political developments within the day, with experiences of Mr. Roy making an attempt to attain out to a lot of BJP leaders and MLAs. Biswajit Das, BJP MLA from Bagda, additionally praised Mr. Roy and acknowledged that he revered Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Mr. Roy hails from North 24 Parganas and is claimed to have appreciable affect within the district. Sources within the BJP mentioned Mr. Roy had reached out to a number of BJP MLAs, each in south Bengal and north Bengal.
During the day Mr. Roy additionally met TMC common secretary Abhishek Banerjee at his workplace. On Friday, the 67- year-old former Railway Minister had joined the TMC within the presence of Ms. Banerjee after his 3-year-7-month stint as a BJP chief.
“We are not worried about committed workers. The defectors (‘aaya Ram, gaya Ram’) do not make much difference,” State BJP president Dilip Ghosh mentioned.
Leader of the Opposition within the State Assembly and BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari mentioned that he would use the provisions of the anti-defection regulation to get MLAs “who defected from the BJP to the TMC” disqualified.
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