Suvendu Adhikari, the face of the Nandigram movement, had resigned from Mamata Banerjee cabinet on final Friday. (PTI)
Trinamool Congress reaches out to Suvendu Adhikari: Days right after its heavyweight minister resigned from the cabinet, chief minister Mamata Banerjee dispatched prime TMC leaders to pacify disgruntled Suvendu Adhikari amid buzz more than his probable shift from the celebration to rival BJP. Among the leaders who met Suvendu have been veteran celebration MP Saugata Roy, senior leader and MP Sudip Bandopadhyay, Abhishek Banerjee, and election strategist Prashant Kishor. After the meeting that occurred in North Kolkata, Saugata Roy stated that all difficulties with Suvendu have been sorted out.
“We met Suvendu Adhikari on Tuesday. An earlier decision was reinforced that he will stay in TMC only without any question of joining BJP. Suvendu will clarify whatever he wants to via a press conference,” Roy stated.
While TMC has claimed that all variations with the disgruntled leader have been sorted out, the man at the centre, Suvendu Adhikari, is but to confirm the identical. Reports recommend that many calls and messages to Suvendu searching for his version of what transpired in the meetings went unanswered, leaving area for speculation that all could possibly not be effectively regardless of the claims created by the TMC.
Suvendu, a mass leader with considerable clout in more than 3 dozens of assembly constituencies, is an asset for Mamata Banerjee who can not afford to let him go as she faces the toughest battle ahead of her in 2021. After Nandigram — an anti-land acquisition movement that paved the way for Mamata to turn into CM, Suvendu became the second most strong individual in the TMC. It was Suvendu who galvanised unprecedented help for the movement that created TMC a strong force in Bengal.
But this energy equation in between him and Mamata started to transform right after the latter permitted her nephew Abhishek Banerjee and Prashant Kishor to have a larger say in celebration matters. Gradually, Abhishek Banerjee replaced Suvendu from the quantity two position in TMC. Prashant Kishor carried extra weight than him when it came to election matters. These developments did not go down effectively with Suvendu who gradually began distancing himself from the TMC. He initially resigned from the post of chairman of Hooghly River Bridge Commission and then from the Cabinet.
The buzz is that he may well join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), despite the fact that the saffron celebration has maintained that Suvendu’s exit from the West Bengal government is the TMC’s internal matter.