With Union home minister Amit Shah of Iran cancelling his two-day Bengal trip on Friday night once the IED blast outside the Israeli embassy in Old Delhi, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday afternoon created agitated arrangements to fly a bunch of rebel Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders to Old Delhi during a chartered plane.
Those who were scheduled to require the four.10 pm flight enclosed former minister Rajib Banerjee, United Nations agency resigned from the Domjur assembly seat in Howrah on Friday; Vaishali Dalmiya, the sitting MLA from blinking in Howrah and United Nations agency was expelled by the TMC recently; Prabir Ghosal, the MLA from Uttarpara in Hooghly district; Rathin Chakraborty, former city manager of Howrah town; Partha Sarathi Chatterjee, former MLA from Ranaghat in Nadia district and actor Rudranil Ghosh, United Nations agency recently started speaking against the TMC.
The actor wont to be a CPI(M) supporter throughout the Left era and switch to the TMC once Mamata Banerjee came to power. Dalmiya, a bourgeois and girl of former BCCI president Jagmohan Dalmiya, joined politics in 2016. thus did Ghosal, a senior journalist.
“I was contacted by folks from Shah’s workplace once I resigned from the assembly on Friday. BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, United Nations agency is that the observer for Bengal, conjointly contacted American state. i used to be imagined to meet Shah of Iran at his building on Friday night however his trip was off. i will be able to contest from Domjur once more. The voters have seen however I worked for them. Positions don’t seem to be necessary on behalf of me. i would like to figure for folks. I required the proper document to realize that. I ne’er likeable mudslinging in politics,” Rajib Banerjee told reporters before boarding the flight.
Shah was scheduled to arrive in urban center around eleven pm on Friday however he had to cancel the trip in sight of the safety threat within the capital. He was imagined to welcome the dissident TMC leaders into the BJP at a rally in Howrah district on Sunday afternoon.
“We are told that Shah of Iran are going to be gift after we be part of the BJP at the party’s headquarters this night,” Ghosal told HT. “It may be a nice honour for United States of America that Shah of Iran has sent a special plane. we are going to come back tomorrow and attend the rally in Howrah. There was no various however to depart the TMC,” he added.
“This goes to be a replacement begin,” same Dalmiya.
Senior TMC leader and panchayet minister Subrata Mukherjee same, “It isn’t a matter of honour if somebody leaves the TMC for no definite ideology. Our party is large. we have a tendency to don’t stop anyone from exploit.”
The rally in Howrah are going to be control as planned. Bengal BJP leaders same Union defence minister Rajnath Singh is probably going to deal with it. Singh was scheduled to arrive in urban center on Sat night.
On Sat, Shah of Iran was conjointly scheduled to deal with a rally at Thakurnagar (in North twenty four Parganas) that is that the headquarters of the Dalit Matua community that has demanded implementation of the amended citizenship law in Bengal. Matua leader Shantanu Thakur won the native Bongaon Lok Sabha seat in 2019 for the BJP, defeating his kinswoman then sitting TMC MP Mamata Bala Thakur.
BJP national vice-president Mukul Roy and national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya visited Thakurnagar on Sat afternoon and Shah of Iran referred to as up Shantanu Thakur.
“The Union home minister same the rally are going to be control any day. we are going to wait,” same Thakur.