The ongoing tussle in the West Bengal BJP intensified on Monday, when it suspended its senior leaders Ritesh Tiwari and Jayaprakash Majumdar for violating party discipline, which was earlier cited for the reasons. A statement issued by the West Bengal BJP unit said Tiwari and Majumdar have been provisionally suspended until the party’s disciplinary committee completes its investigation on the instructions of BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar. Take it.
Reacting to his suspension, an angry Tiwari told a news channel that “a group of leaders” who had joined the BJP in the recent past are acting as “agents of the TMC” and trying to protect its interests. doing damage. are delivering. “The show cause was given to me with malicious intent. I have been a loyal worker of BJP for more than 35 years. I have no complaint neither with the party nor with the state president. But some leaders come across as agents of Trinamool Congress. working and trying to capture the party. My fight is against them and I will not stop till these leaders are thrown out of BJP.
In fact, challenging the BJP’s state leadership, Tiwari said, “If they can, throw me out of the party… Some people who joined the party after the 2019 Lok Sabha elections are insulting the old-fashioned.” First let them prove where I said something against the party. Continuing his scathing attack against the state BJP, he said, “I was served a show cause notice without doing anything, that too by a disciplinary committee which was dissolved within a few days. When contacted, Majumdar declined to comment but said he would clarify his stand on the issue at a press conference on Tuesday. Two senior BJP leaders, who were dropped from the new office-bearers’ committee last year, were issued show-cause notices by the state unit on Sunday. Both were vice-presidents of the state unit in the previous committee and Majumdar’s name was among the spokespersons in the new state committee announced a month ago. Tiwari was not included in the committee. ,
Earlier in the day, Majumdar had told reporters that Tiwari and he were served a show cause notice on Sunday. The two leaders had attended a meeting convened a week ago in Kolkata by Union Minister Shantanu Thakur, an influential leader of the larger Matua community in the state. He was present when Union Minister of State for Ports, Shipping and Waterways Thakur reprimanded a section of state leaders who allegedly ignored 90 per cent loyal BJP leaders, including backward caste members, while forming the new committee. Was.
The Union Minister had organized a picnic a few days back with several disgruntled BJP leaders in his Bongaon constituency. He told reporters on Sunday that several disgruntled party leaders were in touch with him. “So how many reasons can the party give?” The anti-BJP TMC took a dig at the ongoing controversy in the saffron camp. “BJP is a sinking ship in West Bengal. They were thinking of winning Bengal (in the state elections in 2021) but cannot keep their house in order,” said TMC MP Saugata Roy.
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