A journalist turned politician, Suman Kanjilal has now become the sixth MLA to go away the Bharatiya Janata Get together to hitch the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal. A primary-time MLA, he had gained from Alipurduar regardless of getting a ticket on the final minute.
Whereas the BJP has been interesting to the Speaker to disqualify the MLAs who’ve crossed over to the TMC, the matter remains to be pending.
Kanjilal’s victory from Alipurduar was a part of the anti-TMC wave in North Bengal within the 2021 Meeting elections. TMC second-in-command Abhishek Banerjee was current to welcome him into the celebration.
A scholar chief who was related to the Congress, Kanjilal did his commencement in regulation from Bihar after which grew to become a journalist, working for a lot of vernacular dailies of West Bengal. It was district BJP chief Gangaprasad Sharma, whom he grew near, who introduced Kanjilal into politics. By the way, Sharma was not too blissful at Kanjilal getting the ticket from Alipurduar, and earlier stop the BJP to hitch the TMC.
Within the 2021 Meeting elections, the BJP had first picked Ashok Lahiri as its candidate from Alipurduar. However, on the final minute, Lahiri was shifted as Balurghat candidate, and it was to protect towards factionalism in the event that they picked a neighborhood, that the BJP management selected “outsider” Kanjilal. He defeated senior TMC chief Sourav Chakraborty from Alipurduar, by a powerful margin of 16,000 votes.
Kanjilal stated the primary motive he determined to shift to the TMC was the Centre stopping funds for some widespread schemes to West Bengal, citing irregularities. “I did not agree with this policy to stop payment to Bengal. I believe that as a people’s representative, I should not support this. So, I decided to quit the BJP.”
He stated his different motive was unhappiness with Alipurduar BJP MP and Union Minister of State John Barla, and different celebration leaders. “I cannot work with a leader like Barla,” he stated.
Dismissing Kanjilal’s claims, Alipurduar district BJP president Bhushan Modak stated they’d recognized for a while that Kanjilal would possibly shift sides. “We knew that he had been in contact with the TMC for several months. He had also been maintaining distance from the party under various pretexts. I tried to keep him back, but it is not possible to retain someone who judges politics by profit figures.”
Barla too attacked Kanjilal, saying he had “never been useful to the party organisation”. “He came to the party with the help of a traitor (another leader who quit the BJP for the TMC). Naturally, he betrayed us.”
BJP spokesperson Shamik Bhattacharya stated Kanjilal’s exit would make no distinction to the celebration. “The BJP will not lose its relevance in state politics due to the MLA changing parties.”
Nonetheless, there may be disquiet throughout the TMC too at Kanjilal becoming a member of the celebration, with a senior chief mentioning that he has been “in the anti-Sourav Chakraborty group in Alipurduar since his student life”. “We do not know how the party will manage this.”
Chakraborty stated he didn’t anticipate any points. “Kanjilal has joined the TMC as he supports the development work of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. I support the same too, and I am happy that Suman will join me and we will both work towards the same goal.”
The opposite BJP legislators to have moved to the TMC for the reason that 2021 polls embrace Krishnanagar North MLA and BJP nationwide vice-president Mukul Roy; Kaliaganj MLA Soumen Roy; Raiganj MLA Krishna Kalyani; Bagda MLA Biswajit Das; and Bishnupur MLA Tanmoy Ghosh.
Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, who earlier moved from the TMC to the BJP, has gone to the Calcutta Excessive Court docket to get Speaker Biman Banerjee to take a name on their disqualification. The matter is pending in court docket.
Adhikari questioned the TMC’s dealing with of the matter, tweeting: “Are you scared of the 10th Schedule of the Indian Constitution (anti-defection law)? Not handing over TMC flag?… Because, inside Vidhan Sabha, as in the case of Mukul Roy, TMC Owner labelled him as BJP; Suman Kanjilal would also claim that he belongs to the BJP Legislative Party.”
Trinamool spokesperson Kunal Ghosh hit again, telling Adhikari in a put up: “Before tweeting publicly, please go home first and tell your father and brother this theory of anti-defection law. Also admit that BJP MLAs do not trust BJP and opposition leaders. It is also the failure of the opportunist traitor Suvendu Adhikari.”
Adhikari’s father and brother proceed to be within the TMC.
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