Team News Riveting
Kolkata, August 8
Another imported Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader in the BJP before the state polls is all set to return to his parent party but waiting for action from his incumbent organisation.
Former West Bengal minister Rajib Banerjee, who quit TMC and joined the BJP just before the West Bengal elections, is continuously challenging the saffron leadership. Despite being warned, he had been keeping the party discipline at bay and publicly displaying his inclination towards the ruling TMC in the state.
The latest in the serious is his meeting with Trinamool Congress’s National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee at the latter’s South Kolkata office on Saturday evening.
A senior BJP leader in West Bengal said Banerjee was given two show cause notices but he did not respond. It was an indication that he did not want to continue in the party. The state unit had sent a detailed report to the party high command.
Banerjee was a minister in the previous Trinamool government, but quit to join the BJP and contested on behalf of the saffron party from Domjur Assembly seat, where he was the MLA before, but lost. Soon after his defeat, he became a rebel and started making anti-party statements or avoiding party meetings.
Unlike other “imported” TMC leaders who did not hesitate to quit the new organisation and return to the parent one, Banerjee seems to be waiting for an action from the BJP.
