Who is Suvendu Adhikari? Mamata’s as soon as trusted aide turned bête noire

Image Source : PTI (FILE) Who is Suvendu Adhikari? Mamata’s as soon as trusted aide turned bete noire
Suvendu Adhikari stop the Trinamool Congress and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in December final yr. A Trinamool Congress soldier for greater than 20 years, Adhikari is an influential chief with a mass base. 

Once thought-about an in depth aide of Mamata Banerjee, Adhikari is the person who had helped Mamata Banerjee in her anti-land acquisition movemnent towards the Left Front authorities in Nandigram in 2009 that catapulted her to energy in 2011.

He resigned from Mamata Banerjee’s get together, her cabinet and different positions citing “difficulties for him to work with the party”.

Himself a two-term former MP, Adhikari’s father, Sisir Adhikari and brother Dibyendu are sitting TMC MPs from Tamluk and Kanthi Lok Sabha constituencies respectively.

The Adhikari household wields appreciable affect in at the least 40-45 meeting segments in West Medinipur, Bankura, Purulia, Jhargram, components of Birbhum — primarily within the Junglemahal area and areas in minority-dominated Murshidabad district. Adhikari’s entry within the BJP is prone to adversely affect the TMC’s prospects in these areas within the April-May meeting polls.

Adhikari was elected as a councillor from the Congress within the Contai Municipality in 1995. In 2006, he was elected to West Bengal Legislative Assembly, from Kanthi Dakshin as member of TMC. He, nonetheless, resigned mid-term to hitch Lok Sabha. Adhikari was elected to the Lok Sabha from Tamluk in 2009 and 2014. But he stop in 2016 and was elected to the Legislative Assembly from Nandigram. 

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