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  • Mamata clips wings of BJP turncoat Babul Supriyo in West Bengal cabinet reshuffle

    By Express News Service

    KOLKATA: In a reshuffle within the West Bengal cabinet, the wings of Babul Supriyo, the previous BJP MP and Union minister who had defected to the TMC in 2021, had been clipped on Monday by relieving him from his put up as tourism minister.

    Singer-turned-politician Supriyo can be within the state cabinet for 2 different departments—Information and Technology & Electronics and Non-conventional and Renewable Energy Sources, which he had been allotted after profitable from Ballygunge Assembly constituency two years in the past.

    In the reshuffle, Indranil Sen was appointed as the brand new tourism minister.

    The West Bengal Chief Minister made modifications to the portfolios of a number of ministries earlier than she left for Spain aiming to carry investments to Bengal.

    Sources within the TMC stated Supriyo’s wings had been clipped owing to his bitter relationship with Sen. “The chief minister was not happy with it. Sen is one of her loyal lieutenants while Supriyo had launched a scathing attack on the CM both before the 2019 general elections and the Assembly polls in 2021 and decided to join after being axed from the Union cabinet,” stated a senior TMC chief.

    Supriyo was the BJP MP from Asansol for 2 consecutive phrases since 2014 earlier than the TMC wrested the seat from the saffron camp within the by-election after he had defected to Mamata’s social gathering.

    The reshuffle additionally noticed a rise in obligations for forest minister Jyotipriya Mallick, who additionally now oversees Industrial Reconstruction and Public Enterprises.   

    KOLKATA: In a reshuffle within the West Bengal cabinet, the wings of Babul Supriyo, the previous BJP MP and Union minister who had defected to the TMC in 2021, had been clipped on Monday by relieving him from his put up as tourism minister.

    Singer-turned-politician Supriyo can be within the state cabinet for 2 different departments—Information and Technology & Electronics and Non-conventional and Renewable Energy Sources, which he had been allotted after profitable from Ballygunge Assembly constituency two years in the past.

    In the reshuffle, Indranil Sen was appointed as the brand new tourism minister.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    The West Bengal Chief Minister made modifications to the portfolios of a number of ministries earlier than she left for Spain aiming to carry investments to Bengal.

    Sources within the TMC stated Supriyo’s wings had been clipped owing to his bitter relationship with Sen. “The chief minister was not happy with it. Sen is one of her loyal lieutenants while Supriyo had launched a scathing attack on the CM both before the 2019 general elections and the Assembly polls in 2021 and decided to join after being axed from the Union cabinet,” stated a senior TMC chief.

    Supriyo was the BJP MP from Asansol for 2 consecutive phrases since 2014 earlier than the TMC wrested the seat from the saffron camp within the by-election after he had defected to Mamata’s social gathering.

    The reshuffle additionally noticed a rise in obligations for forest minister Jyotipriya Mallick, who additionally now oversees Industrial Reconstruction and Public Enterprises.   

  • Babul Supriyo: From singer to BJP’s poster boy to Mamata’s minister

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: Babul Supriyo, who was on Wednesday sworn in as a minister in Mamata Banerjee’s cabinet, has had a roller-coaster trip, from being a well-liked playback singer to BJP’s poster boy in West Bengal to becoming a member of the TMC authorities.

    Supriyo began off as a metropolis banker who rose to be a BJP minister on the Centre after an opportunity assembly with yoga guru Ramdev, however instantly discovered himself out within the chilly after shedding an meeting election from Tollygunge final 12 months by an enormous margin of fifty,000 votes.

    However, Supriyo bounced again to win the distinguished Ballygunge constituency in April for his new social gathering – the Trinamool Congress – which he joined in September 2021 in a shock transfer.

    Born in West Bengal’s Uttarpara as Supriya Baral in 1970, he modified his identify to Babul Supriyo whereas attempting his luck as a Bollywood singer after quitting his banking job.

    After a profitable stint as a Hindi playback singer, Supriyo entered politics in 2014, getting a ticket to contest the Lok Sabha elections for the BJP from West Bengal on Ramdev’s suggestion.

    He shocked everybody by defeating TMC’s Dola Sen from the commercial city of Asansol and was made the Union Minister of State for Urban Development.

    Two years later, he was shifted to the Ministry for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises throughout a reshuffle in July 2016.

    In 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Supriyo’s successful streak continued when he defeated TMC’s Moon Moon Sen by an enormous margin of 1.97 lakh votes.

    This time the Bollywood singer was named the Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change.

    Supriyo was once more pitted in April 2021, because the BJP candidate for Tollygunge Assembly constituency, which has as its centerpiece the film studio often known as Tollywood, towards three-time TMC MLA Aroop Biswas.

    The two-time BJP MP had then promised he would finish Biswas’s “dictatorship” in Tollywood.

    However, this time spherical his streak of luck appeared to have run out.

    Supriyo misplaced by over 50,000 votes.

    Things additionally began going bitter in his relationship with BJP’s high management and he was ultimately dropped from the Union Cabinet.

    The perturbed 50-year-old singer, whose instinctive first response was that he would “give up” politics after being dropped from the ministry, finally joined the TMC after social gathering supremo Mamata Banerjee and common secretary Abhishek Banerjee prolonged a proposal to him.

    ““It was with great disillusionment that I had announced that I would quit politics. A great opportunity has been extended by Didi (Mamata Banerjee) and Abhishek Banerjee and I am happy to accept that. I was expecting something more after seven years as a Union Minister of State. Then differences started growing with the party,”” Supriyo had mentioned after becoming a member of the TMC final 12 months.

    Though his victory in Ballygunge earlier this 12 months was marred by a marketing campaign of “no vote for Supriyo” undertaken by some teams within the constituency, Supriyo, true to his curler coaster model gained the seat by over 20,000 votes towards his CPI(M) rival Saira Shah Halim, who emerged within the second place.

    Interestingly, his former social gathering’s Keya Ghosh got here a distant third.

    KOLKATA: Babul Supriyo, who was on Wednesday sworn in as a minister in Mamata Banerjee’s cabinet, has had a roller-coaster trip, from being a well-liked playback singer to BJP’s poster boy in West Bengal to becoming a member of the TMC authorities.

    Supriyo began off as a metropolis banker who rose to be a BJP minister on the Centre after an opportunity assembly with yoga guru Ramdev, however instantly discovered himself out within the chilly after shedding an meeting election from Tollygunge final 12 months by an enormous margin of fifty,000 votes.

    However, Supriyo bounced again to win the distinguished Ballygunge constituency in April for his new social gathering – the Trinamool Congress – which he joined in September 2021 in a shock transfer.

    Born in West Bengal’s Uttarpara as Supriya Baral in 1970, he modified his identify to Babul Supriyo whereas attempting his luck as a Bollywood singer after quitting his banking job.

    After a profitable stint as a Hindi playback singer, Supriyo entered politics in 2014, getting a ticket to contest the Lok Sabha elections for the BJP from West Bengal on Ramdev’s suggestion.

    He shocked everybody by defeating TMC’s Dola Sen from the commercial city of Asansol and was made the Union Minister of State for Urban Development.

    Two years later, he was shifted to the Ministry for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises throughout a reshuffle in July 2016.

    In 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Supriyo’s successful streak continued when he defeated TMC’s Moon Moon Sen by an enormous margin of 1.97 lakh votes.

    This time the Bollywood singer was named the Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change.

    Supriyo was once more pitted in April 2021, because the BJP candidate for Tollygunge Assembly constituency, which has as its centerpiece the film studio often known as Tollywood, towards three-time TMC MLA Aroop Biswas.

    The two-time BJP MP had then promised he would finish Biswas’s “dictatorship” in Tollywood.

    However, this time spherical his streak of luck appeared to have run out.

    Supriyo misplaced by over 50,000 votes.

    Things additionally began going bitter in his relationship with BJP’s high management and he was ultimately dropped from the Union Cabinet.

    The perturbed 50-year-old singer, whose instinctive first response was that he would “give up” politics after being dropped from the ministry, finally joined the TMC after social gathering supremo Mamata Banerjee and common secretary Abhishek Banerjee prolonged a proposal to him.

    ““It was with great disillusionment that I had announced that I would quit politics. A great opportunity has been extended by Didi (Mamata Banerjee) and Abhishek Banerjee and I am happy to accept that. I was expecting something more after seven years as a Union Minister of State. Then differences started growing with the party,”” Supriyo had mentioned after becoming a member of the TMC final 12 months.

    Though his victory in Ballygunge earlier this 12 months was marred by a marketing campaign of “no vote for Supriyo” undertaken by some teams within the constituency, Supriyo, true to his curler coaster model gained the seat by over 20,000 votes towards his CPI(M) rival Saira Shah Halim, who emerged within the second place.

    Interestingly, his former social gathering’s Keya Ghosh got here a distant third.

  • Babul Supriyo appointed TMC nationwide spokesperson

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: TMC MLA Babul Supriyo has been appointed as a nationwide spokesperson of the social gathering, sources within the Mamata Banerjee-led camp stated.

    Supriyo, the previous union minister, took to Twitter to thank the social gathering supremo for giving him the brand new duty.

    “My sincere gratitude to Hon’ble Didi @MamataOfficial & @abhishekaitc for appointing/including me in the illustrious Team of National Spokespersons of @AITCofficial. Shall do my very best to live up to the responsibility entrusted upon me,” he tweeted.

    A senior TMC chief stated Supriyo’s appointment as a nationwide spokesperson was part of the technique devised by the social gathering to develop its base exterior Bengal.

    “He is a well-known face across the country, both as a singer and a politician. So he can help us place our views and policies on the national stage,” the TMC chief stated.

    Supriyo, a former BJP MP, was dropped from the Union ministry final 12 months, following which he converted to the TMC.

    He gave up his Asansol Lok Sabha seat, which he had bagged on BJP tickets twice. The singer-turned-politician was then nominated by the ruling TMC for the Ballygunge meeting bypoll in April this 12 months, and he managed to clinch the seat by a cushty margin.

  • Ballygunge bypoll: Defeated CPM nominee Saira Halim will get in Twitter spat with winner Babul Supriyo

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: Ballygunge meeting seat byelection winner Babul Supriyo of the Trinamool Congress and runner-up Saira Shah Halim of the CPM entered right into a battle of phrases on social media on Sunday, with the previous BJP MP attacking her for displaying “no class” after defeat and terming the Left occasion’s marketing campaign as “below the belt”.

    Taking to Twitter to retaliate, Halim mentioned that her occasion believes in a classless society the place the wealthy and the poor is not going to be differentiated by the wealth and property they personal. “I am relieved that we won Ballygunge defeating the vile, dirty, often below the belt, personal & false propaganda of @CPIM_WESTBENGAL,” Supriyo tweeted.

    And, now the woman who’s a loser by individuals’s verdict, does not present the grace to simply accept the defeat however as an alternative goes forward to name me ‘Corrupt’But I’ll humbly & calmly benefit from the win letting her sulk within the ache of the loss Proves#EducationDoNotMakeOneEducated #LoserBjpCpim https://t.co/AY9eMnVXOU

    — Babul Supriyo (@SuPriyoBabul) April 16, 2022

    Supriyo, who joined the TMC in September final 12 months after being dropped as a minister of state from the Narendra Modi authorities, claimed that BJP candidate Keya Ghosh had her deposit forfeited for getting lower than 6 per cent of the overall votes solid.

    The newly-elected MLA from the distinguished Ballygunge seat in south Kolkata earlier tweeted, “Even after a filthy deplorable campaign full of lies & deceit @CPIM_WESTBENGAL & Saira Shah Halim shows no class, forget shame.”

    He additionally sought to remind the CPM that it has no illustration within the West Bengal meeting with the Left Front not successful any seat within the 2021 elections within the state.

    Reacting to Supriyo’s tweets, Halim tweeted, “We believe in a classless society, where rich and poor will not be differentiated by the wealth and property they own. Anyone who judges me as having ‘no class’, knows what he is fighting against.”

    We consider in a classless society,the place wealthy and poor is not going to be differentiated by the wealth and property they personal.

    Anyone who judges me as having “no class”, is aware of what he’s preventing towards.

    — Saira Shah Halim ‏‎‎سائرہ (@sairashahhalim) April 17, 2022

    Accusing the CPM of resorting to a communal marketing campaign within the byelection to Ballygunge, the place greater than 50 per cent of the voters are from the minority group, TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh mentioned, “It may have got some votes, but that does not mean a revival of the CPM is on the cards.”

    Ghosh mentioned that the TMC management will look into how the Left occasion acquired extra votes than what it had bagged within the final elections. He mentioned that the CPM’s efficiency within the Asansol Lok Sabha by-election, which was gained by the TMC’s Shatrughan Sinha with the BJP coming second, has been disastrous.

    Rising from simply 5.61 per cent of the vote share in Ballygunge within the 2021 meeting elections, the CPIM) candidate notched up over 30 per cent of the votes polled within the by-poll, forsaking the BJP to come back as much as the second place.

    The CPM final gained from Ballygunge in 2001 and secured a 3rd place behind the TMC and the BJP within the 2021 elections, which her husband Fuad Halim had contested.

  • TMC chief Babul Supriyo wins Ballygunge Assembly bypoll, CPM finishes second

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: TMC chief Babul Supriyo gained the Ballygunge meeting by-poll on Saturday, defeating his nearest rival of the CPI(M), Saira Shah Halim, by a margin of 20,228 votes.

    Supriyo garnered 51,199 votes towards Halim’s 30,971 votes.

    Interestingly, Halim has overtaken BJP’s Keya Ghosh who bagged simply 13,220 votes, thus lending some credence to the communist get together’s declare that it was on a revival path.

    Kamruzzaman Choudhury of the Congress pocketed 5,218 votes.

  • Ballygunge by-poll: Babul Supriyo assured of profitable election, says West Bengal is with ‘Didi’, TMC

    By ANI

    BALLYGUNGE: As the counting of votes solid within the by-poll to the Ballygunge Assembly seat is underway, TMC candidate Babul Supriyo on Saturday exuded confidence in profitable the election and mentioned the folks of West Bengal are with Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee.

    “I’m confident. The 41 per cent voters turnout here rubbished the opposition’s unnecessary claim of false voting. Had that been the case, would turnout have been this huge? West Bengal is with Didi and TMC”, mentioned Babul Supriyo.

    The by-polls have been necessitated after former Union Minister Babul Supriyo resigned because the Lok Sabha MP of Asansol after resigning from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He later joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC). The Ballygunge Assembly seat by-poll was necessitated after the demise of state Minister Subrata Mukherjee.

    Speaking on the Asansol Lok Sabha by-poll, Supriyo mentioned, “Asansol has given me much love and I will always appreciate it. Shatrughan Sinha’s victory is also certain. Before reaching the final phase of the result every moment is interesting and let’s enjoy the journey.”

    The TMC has fielded yesteryear actor Shatrughan Sinha in Asansol, which has a considerable Hindi-speaking inhabitants, whereas the BJP has nominated Asansol Dakshin MLA Agnimitra Paul from the constituency.

    In the state Assembly elections final yr, Trinamool Congress (TMC) gained 213 seats whereas BJP alternatively garnered 77 seats within the 294-seat state Assembly.

    In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Supriyo had defeated TMC candidate Moon Moon Sen by a large margin of 1,97,637 votes, securing 51.56 per cent of the whole votes polled. In 2014, Supriyo’s victory margin was 70,480 votes.

    Bye-election to a Ballygunge Assembly seat and Asansol Lok Sabha seat was held on April 12.

    On the polling day, BJP’s Lok Sabha by-poll candidate Agnimitra Paul alleged that TMC staff thrashed her safety personnel and pelted stones at her convoy whereas TMC candidate Babul Supriyo alleged electoral malpractice by BJP. 

  • TMC candidates Shatrughan Sinha, Babul Supriyo file nominations for by-polls in Bengal

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress candidates Shatrughan Sinha and Babul Supriyo on Monday filed their nominations for by-polls to a Lok Sabha and an meeting seat to be held on April 12 in West Bengal.

    Sinha has been fielded for by-election to the Asansol Lok Sabha constituency, whereas Supriyo was nominated for the Ballygunge Assembly seat.

    Speaking to reporters after submitting his nomination at Alipore Survey Building, Supriyo stated, “I am thankful to ‘Didi’ (TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee) for giving me this opportunity to contest from the presitigious Ballygunge constituency. I am really honoured and accept the challenge.”

    The bypoll to Asansol was necessitated as Supriyo resigned because the BJP MP after becoming a member of the TMC in September final yr. The Ballygunge Assembly seat goes for polls as incumbent MLA and state minister Subrata Mukherjee died in November 2021.

    Sinha, a former BJP chief, filed his nomination on the workplace of the district Justice of the Peace of Paschim Bardhaman.

    The actor-turned-politician had Sunday taken a jibe on the BJP for labelling him as an outsider, questioning what the saffron social gathering makes of Prime Minister Narendra Modi contesting from Varanasi. “If for national figures like the PM, contesting the Lok Sabha polls from anywhere is accepted, then the same holds true for me as well,” he had stated.

    By-polls to the Asansol Lok Sabha constituency and the Ballygunje meeting seat will probably be held on April 12, and votes will probably be counted on April 16.

  • Decision to give up BJP prompted by politics of hatred practised in occasion: Babul Supriyo

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: TMC candidate for Ballygunge meeting by-poll, Babul Supriyo, who converted to the Mamata Banerjee-led occasion from the BJP final September, on Friday mentioned his choice to give up the saffron occasion was prompted by politics of “hatred and divisiveness” practised by its members.

    The former MP had left the BJP shortly after dropping his ministerial berth on the Centre.

    Often trolled on social media over his choice to modify camps, Supriyo on Friday, tagging Bengal BJP’s official web page, tweeted, “My decision to quit was prompted by the politics of hatred, divisiveness (practised in the saffron camp). I could no longer reconcile to such brand of politics.”

    Asserting that he would do no matter was wanted to guard the heritage, tradition and secular values of Bengal, Supriyo mentioned, “People of Asansol know I had never practiced the sectarian and narrow 70:30 or 80:20 politics in Bengal and will never do that.”

    The Left had accused the previous minister of fuelling communal sentiments following a riot in Asansol space of Paschim Bardhaman district in 2018.

    Alleging that he was betrayed by the BJP management in Bengal, Supriyo acknowledged, “I would work to uphold the motto of unity in diversity.” He additionally mentioned that “he could not accept the regular insults made to Bengalis, the refusal to acknowledge the good work of a Bengali”.

    Responding to his allegations, BJP nationwide vice-president Dilip Ghosh questioned why he “woke up to the true character of the BJP this late”. “We never saw such a treacherous personality before,” he mentioned.

    “If he thinks Bengalis are not getting due recognition, how come he was made a union minister by Shri Narendra Modi in 2014, despite being a new entrant in politics? He was a singer and had no political background. Has he forgotten how he was defeated by the TMC in Tollygunje last year?” Ghosh mentioned.

    Echoing him, BJP nationwide secretary Anupam Hazra mentioned it was “ironical that Supriyo did not discover these traits and vices” when he was a minister “We are lucky to have got ridden of such unprincipled unethical person,” Hazra mentioned.

  • Did not float new occasion to eliminate nepotism: Suvendu Adhikari

    SUVENDU ADHIKARI, former transport minister who joined BJP lately, on Saturday stated he didn’t kind one other regional occasion as a result of his members of the family would have been at its helm after him “like the Trinamool Congress.” Instead, he stated, he selected to hitch the “nation’s largest political party”.
    Adhikari was addressing a public assembly in Mahisadal, Purba Medinipur. BJP MP and Minister of State, atmosphere and forest, Babul Supriyo was additionally current.
    “They (TMC) are asking why I did not form a regional party. Yes, with your blessings, I could have formed a small regional party. I had the capability. But then after me, my ‘nephew’ would have been its leader. I decided to join the largest party in the nation — the BJP,” stated Suvendu.
    “They (TMC) are asking what deal I struck with BJP for joining? Yes, I have struck a deal. The deal is that after BJP comes to power (in the state), (images of) Bengal’s pride Ishwar Chandra Vidaysagar, Swami Vivekananda, Netaji Subhas Bose and Rabinbradanth Tagore will adorn the walls near schools and neighbourhoods. I have struck a deal that after BJP comes to power, there will be no corruption, candidates will get jobs on merit in SSC (School Service Commission), PSC (Public Service Commission), police will get their ration (monthly ration) back, state government employees will have their DA (Dearness Allowance) problem solved,” stated Adhikari.
    Suvendu additionally focused the TMC over the brand new farm legal guidelines. “They (TMC) are saying farmers are rejecting the farm laws. After the farm laws were passed, BJP and NDA came to power in Bihar. BJP won in polls in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan,” he added.
    Adhikari additionally focused the state authorities’s ‘Duare Duare Sarkar’ (Government at doorstep) and ‘Paray Paray Samdhan’ (Solution in Neighborhoods) initiatives undertaken lately. “After nine-and-a-half years, now ‘Jomer Duare Sarkar’ (Government at death bed). What you will get is a form and a card (Swastha Sathi health scheme). All lies. Ayushman Bharat is in every state except Bengal. Can one of you say that you got benefit from Swastha Sathi? Now comes ‘Paray Paray Samadhan. It is nothing but an election campaign in your neighbourhoods,” stated Adhikari.
    He added that his former occasion has turn out to be a “company”. “I roamed in village after village and worked hard. But my former party has become a company. After May 15, there will be no TMC. We will dump the company in a river,” stated Suvendu.
    “When I said ‘Tolabaj Bhaipo’ (extortionist nephew), I did not say anything wrong. The CBI is closing in on his doorstep. You are seeing how a crackdown is happening against cow and coal smugglers. CBI has raided four houses of Vinay Mishra, who is one of the general secretaries of Trinamool Youth Congress,” added Adhikari.
    He burdened that it’s needed that the identical occasion ought to rule within the Centre as nicely within the state for improvement to be ushered in. He stated that after BJP involves energy, it is going to resolve the unemployment concern within the state. Speaking on the event, Babul Supriyo welcomed newcomers within the occasion and stated they might be happy with working in “democratic environment of BJP”.