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  • Abhishek Banerjee should go on nationwide Yatra to learn how to behave with Opposition: Bengal BJP chief

    By ANI

    KOLKATA: Taking a dig at Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee over his Padyatra in Tripura, newly-appointed president of West Bengal BJP Sukanta Majumdar on Tuesday said Banerjee needs to walk across the country to learn how to behave with the Opposition.

    TMC is looking to expand its footprint in the northeast and in line with this the party had planned a padyatra led by Abhishek Bannerjee in Tripura. However, the Padytra has not been held so far as permission has not been given by the administration.

    When asked about Abhishek Banerjee’s Padyatra, Majumdar said, “Abhishek Banerjee must go on a yatra across the country so that he can learn how to behave with the Opposition.”

    Briefing media persons, Majumdar said, “From 3 to 77 is itself a huge success in Bengal. However, there might be something missing in the strategy that we could not win the elections. Some of the seats we lost by a very small margin.”

    Former West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh said the party has taken a far-sighted decision by giving responsibility to Sukanta Majumdar.

    Speaking to media persons, Ghosh said, “I have more experience so the party has given me a bigger responsibility. I held a meeting with the party national president after the polls and told him about my duties. My mission is now half complete.”

    “When we started five years ago, things in Bengal were different. No one even uttered BJP’s name. Now it has become the main opposition party. Our power is equal to TMC. I think the party has taken a far-sighted decision by giving such responsibility to Sukanta babu,” he added.

    BJP national President, Jagat Prakash Nadda on Monday appointed Dr Sukanta Majumdar as the State party president for the West Bengal unit. 

  • Mamata indulging in politics amid crisis caused by cyclone, COVID-19: Dilip Ghosh

    By PTI
    KOLKATA: Alleging that Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee “has no respect for the prime minister’s chair”, state BJP chief Dilip Ghosh on Sunday claimed that she skipped a review meeting on cyclone devastation for “political reasons”, notwithstanding the fact that people are reeling under crisis.

    Ghosh, while talking to reporters in Kharagpur, said that the CM has violated constitutional norms, and “everyone, by now, is aware of the kind of language and words she uses for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah”.

    “She is indulging in politics even as the people of state are reeling under crisis caused by the cyclone and the COVID-19 pandemic.

    We know how she entered the meeting room, where the PM was present, how she talked, and then left with the chief secretary,” the BJP leader stated.

    Reacting to Ghosh’s comments, senior TMC MLA Tapas Roy said, “There is little point in trying to counter the charges made by Ghosh, who now has little importance in his party.

    “However, since he has made certain observations, let me say that it is the BJP that is politicising the cyclone devastation and COVID situation,” he said.

    Echoing him, TMC spokesman Kunal Ghosh said the BJP, after its drubbing in assembly elections, is looking for ways to discredit the Mamata Banerjee government.

    Asserting that the BJP-led Centre was pursuing “vendetta politics”, the CM on Saturday said Modi and Shah were trying to create problems for her government at every step as they were yet to come to terms with BJP’s defeat in the assembly polls.

    She also sought to know why opposition BJP leaders were invited to her review meeting with the PM on cyclone devastation, further stating that she felt insulted at the gesture.