The BJO says it’s going to kind out any misunderstanding with Shantanu Thakur
Kolkata:
In a humiliation to the BJP, Union Minister and outstanding member of the Matua group, Shantanu Thakur has give up all WhatsApp teams of the occasion.
Confirming it, Mr Thakur, the union minister of state for transport, Tuesday instructed reporters: “It appears the state BJP management doesn’t suppose we (Matuas) have an necessary function inside the organisation.”.
He additionally questioned if he has any significance within the BJP state unit any extra.
Mr Thakur, who refused to say the rest, didn’t take telephone calls by PTI.
He’s the Sanghadhipati, All India Matua Mahasangha, an influential Matua group physique.
The Bongaon MP had just a few days again voiced his reservation towards the omission of some MLAs of the Matua group within the reconstitued BJP state and district committees. He had, nevertheless, mentioned he shall be loyal to the occasion.
Reacting to the event, BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar mentioned, “We’ll kind out any misunderstanding with Shantanu Thakur. He’s very a lot part of the BJP parivar.” When requested to remark, Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MP Sukhendu Sekhar Roy instructed reporters that the BJP had used Matua group for its personal electoral beneficial properties.
“Nevertheless it (BJP) was not involved about their actual growth. It’s clear now,” he added.
Over every week in the past 5 BJP MLAs — Mukutmoni Adhikari, Subrata Thakur, Ambica Roy, Asok Kirtania and Asim Sarkar had expressed their displeasure over their omission from the state occasion committee and left the WhatsApp group of MLAs of the saffron occasion.
Mr Adhikari had mentioned that the aspirations of the folks of his constituency might not get fulfilled beneath the newly shaped BJP state committee.
Subrata Thakur and Kirtania had refused to quote any purpose for quitting the WhatsApp group.
Mr Roy had, nevertheless, expressed the want to rejoin the BJP WhatsApp group on December 27, two days after quitting it and mentioned he would kind out any distinction with the occasion.
A politically vital and sizeable group, the Matuas are cut up into the BJP and TMC camps.
The group has appreciable clout in not less than 4 Lok Sabha seats and 30-40 meeting seats in Nadia, North and South 24 Parganas districts.
The scheduled caste Hindu group had migrated to West Bengal throughout partition and have vital presence in North 24 Parganas and Nadia districts amongst others.
The group was wooed by the ruling TMC within the state and BJP alike earlier than the state election and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had even visited Orakandi, the ancestral village of the sect’s founder Harichand Thakur throughout his March 2021 go to to Bangladesh.
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