Twenty BJP leaders in Bengal’s Jalpaiguri resign from posts, allege irregularities in native panel formation 

By PTI

JALPAIGURI: Days after BJP MP Arjun Singh rejoined the Trinamool Congress, at the very least 20 saffron occasion leaders in West Bengal’s Jalpaiguri have tendered resignation collectively from their occasion posts, accusing the district management of taking cash in lieu of inducting members in a neighborhood panel, a celebration functionary stated on Wednesday.

The dissent leaders, together with occasion’s Jalpaiguri district normal secretary Amal Roy, claimed that those that had labored for the saffron brigade and fled their properties as a result of post-poll violence within the state didn’t get a spot within the newly fashioned Maynaguri South Mondal committee.

Roy alleged that the posts of the native panel have been handed out in lieu of cash to those that had been inducted into the occasion not too long ago.

“The dissent leaders have submitted their resignation letters to the district chief,” he claimed.

When contacted BJP’s Jalpaiguri district president Bapi Goswami refused to make any touch upon the allegations.

The improvement got here weeks after Union Home Minister Amit Shah, throughout his go to to West Bengal, had suggested the BJP state unit to strengthen the occasion organisation in an effort to put up a combat in opposition to the ruling occasion.

BJP’s state unit spokesperson Shamik Bhattacharya denied the allegation of recent members being inducted into the native committee in lieu of cash however admitted that there are “differences of opinion in the organisation” “The party will look into the matter and the problem will be sorted out soon,” he stated.

Notably, Jalpaiguri is a stronghold of the BJP because the occasion bagged 4 of seven constituencies within the district within the final meeting elections.

Singh had on May 22 rejoined the state’s ruling occasion.

One of the outstanding Hindi-speaking leaders of the TMC, Singh had joined the saffron camp forward of the Lok Sabha polls in 2019, and went on to win the Barrackpore Lok Sabha seat.

The BJP within the state has been combating onerous to maintain its flock collectively after former Union minister Babul Supriyo and 5 legislators, together with nationwide vice-president Mukul Roy, converted to the TMC for the reason that meeting ballot outcomes final yr.

Several senior TMC leaders like Rajib Banerjee and Sabyasachi Dutta, who had joined the saffron camp, too, returned to the Mamata Banerjee-led occasion.