More depart Bengal BJP in aftermath of bypoll setbacks

Express News Service

KOLKATA:  Poor present within the bypolls is having an influence on the West Bengal unit of BJP. In the final 24 hours, as many as 14 district-level functionaries have tendered their resignation. By and huge, they’ve alleged that ‘incompetent’ leaders are getting extra prominence, whereas the loyal faces are being ignored or sidelined.

On Sunday, two MLAs from Murshidabad district had stepped down. On Monday, state committee member from the identical district, Bani Gangopadhyay mentioned he’s resigning.The warmth of discontent was felt most acutely within the district of Nadia, the place 10 officers introduced that they’re stepping down. They wrote to BJP’s state president Sukanta Majumdar, expressing their incapacity to proceed as office-bearers of the social gathering. They accused a piece of the district management of favouritism.

The district head of BJP, nevertheless, mentioned that he was not conscious of this part of social gathering employees having any misgivings. “None of those leaders knowledgeable me about their determination. Had they been sad with the functioning of the social gathering management, they might have mentioned the difficulty within the district committee,’’ mentioned BJP’s Nadia president Arjun Biswas.

Nadia is a district the place the saffron camp had bagged one seat within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The district has a substantial chunk of voters from the Matua neighborhood, a Hindu spiritual sect of refugees from Bangladesh, which had prolonged assist to BJP after being promised citizenship underneath the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA).

Anupam Hazra, who had misplaced within the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from the Jadavpur constituency in Kolkata, mentioned the resignation of so many functionaries signifies there may be discontent concerning the state and district management’s model of functioning.

BJP’s principal rival  in West Bengal, the ruling Trinamool Congress, was understandably proud of the developments. “Bloodbath in the BJP has begun, which will keep continuing. The BJP functionaries have realised that their political force has no credibility and acceptance among the electorates,” mentioned social gathering spokesperson Kunal Kanti Ghosh.