Kolkata: Hours after he announced his resignation as the party’s West Bengal youth wing president, BJP MP Saumitra Khan withdrew it on Wedne...
Kolkata: Hours after he announced his resignation as the party’s West Bengal youth wing president, BJP MP Saumitra Khan withdrew it on Wednesday. Khan said in a Facebook post in the evening that on the instruction of BJP general secretary BL Santosh, he was withdrawing the resignation “as a mark of respect”.
Infighting within the BJP has come to the fore,
even as the state BJP Youth wing President Saumitra Khan, after tendering his
resignation on Wednesday from the post, took to social media and slammed the
Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari and state BJP President Dilip Ghosh.
Khan claimed that he resigned from the youth wing
president’s post for personal reasons but will continue with the BJP.
Amid speculations of Khan returning to Trinamool, he
said in social media, “The person becoming the Leader of Opposition is
misguiding the central leaders. Ahead of the assembly polls, Suvendu brought
the scam-tainted people from TMC to join the BJP. He is now trying to run BJP
on his own terms and visiting New Delhi frequently.” Saumitra Khan’s wife
Sujata Mondal had left the party and joined Trinamool, ahead of the polls.
Taking potshots at Adhikari, the Bishnupur BJP MP
lashed out at him, saying he is trying to show that he has made great
sacrifices for the BJP while the rest of the leaders are not doing their job. Once
he tried to portray himself as a big-shot in Trinamool and now he is doing the
same in the BJP,” Khan said.
He made it clear that “all have sacrificed several
things to make the BJP win.”
He also slammed the BJP state president Dilip Ghosh,
who in turn said that Saumitra should have expressed his dissatisfaction within
the party if he was not happy by maintaining the protocols.
“If he had issues, he should have said things in
the party. Depending on credentials, the BJP gives power to its leaders to
express their unhappiness and dissatisfaction,” said Ghosh.
Calling Khan his younger brother, Suvendu Adhikari
said, “In the 2011 Assembly polls I campaigned for Saumitra. Whatever he says
doesn’t affect me and I will pray for his well-being.”
Another turncoat BJP leader Rajib Banerjee slammed Adhikari
for criticizing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in his social media handle,
saying she has got a landslide victory with 213 seats. He also urged the LoP to
try to curb the prices of petroleum products to relieve the general public.
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