Team News Riveting
Kolkata, October 2
West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) took a jibe at the entry of Kanhaiya Kumar to the Congress party with much fanfare and questioned if the grand-old party was running short of leaders.
According to reports, the TMC mouthpiece Jago Bangla carried a piece castigating the Congress for absorbing Communist leader Kanhaiya Kumar into the party. This is seen as a fresh volley of the TMC against the Congress.
“Had they fallen short of poster-boys?” the editorial in the paper reportedly said. “At a time realistic steps are necessary to strengthen the foundations of the alternative force, instead of doing that, the Congress is spoiling the situation by taking immature, myopic, cheap steps craving publicity. At the risk of offending some, we are compelled to state that this is called a circus,” it added.
“Why then did the Congress take Kanhaiya Kumar from the CPI, or the Left camp? The Left, too, are anti-BJP. Then why did the Congress take him from there?” asked the editorial, quipping the Congress over the induction of Kanhaiya amid “elaborate fanfare” despite his humiliating defeat in the Lok Sabha polls in 2019 from Begusarai by over 4.22 lakh votes to the BJP.
“Such great dreams of the Left around Kanhaiya, such a noble leader! Before leaving, he even took away the party office’s air-conditioner, because it was bought with his own money,” the editorial added.
Political observers however felt that the TMC had reason to vent its ire despite Kanhaiya’s entry into the party fold as an internal matter of the Congress party. After all, Communists are also the enemy of TMC and its supremo Mamata Banerjee will be reluctant to entertain “Communists in Congress”.
