Blow for Bengal BJP as Lok Sabha MP Arjun Singh returns to TMC after 38 months
The TMC uploaded pictures of Singh’s becoming a member of on social media at 5.forty five pm however Banerjee did now no longer seem at the click convention that accompanied, which become visible as a marked departure from the norm.
Kolkata: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) suffered a blow in Bengal on Sunday whilst Arjun Singh, its Lok Sabha member from Barrackpore in North 24 Parganas district and a kingdom vice-president, lower back to the Trinamool Congress (TMC) after 38 months.
TMC country wide widespread secretary and leader minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee welcomed Singh into the TMC fold at his workplace on Camac Street in south Kolkata.
The TMC uploaded pictures of Singh’s becoming a member of on social media at 5.forty five pm however Banerjee did now no longer seem at the click convention that accompanied, which become visible as a marked departure from the norm.
The assertion become made via way of means of TMC’s Naihati legislator Partha Bhowmick withinside the presence of wooded area minister Jyotipriya Mallick and different legislators from North 24 Parganas.
“I become inducted via way of means of Abhishek Banerjee below commands from Mamata Banerjee. I lower back to the house in which I belonged. I left due to a few misunderstandings. I left the BJP due to the remedy being meted out to Bengal. Our jute enterprise is struggling due to the Centre,” Singh stated at the click convention.
He stated his son, Pawan, the sitting BJP legislator from Bhatpara, might have additionally come to the TMC workplace however couldn't make it due to the fact he become unwell.
“The leader minister these days wrote to the Centre that Bengal’s jute enterprise could be destroyed. I took up the problem the instant I were given to recognize of this letter,” he added.
“I need to clearly surrender as MP however I will first urge the 2 TMC MPs who joined the BJP to surrender first,” he stated, circuitously regarding BJP chief Suvendu Adhikari’s father, Sisir Adhikari, the MP from Contai in East Midnapore and Sunil Mondal, the MP from East Burdwan. The TMC has appealed to Lok Sabha speaker Om Birla to disqualify them.
Sisir Adhikari become visible at a rally of Union domestic minister Amit Shah earlier than the 2021 meeting polls, at the same time as Mondal officially joined the BJP in December 2020.
“Let them surrender first. It will take a minute much less than an hour to step down and contest from Barrackpore again,” stated Singh.
“The Bengal BJP’s organization exists simplest on Facebook now no longer at the ground. Nobody can paintings there,” stated Singh, including that many BJP leaders are keen to sign up for the TMC however they may be screened first.
Singh’s becoming a member of become now no longer smooth, TMC leaders stated, due to the fact Abhishek Banerjee needed to persuade numerous leaders from North 24 Parganas who had been against his return.
While Banerjee held a protracted assembly with the TMC leaders at his Camac Street workplace, Singh, who drove down from the district at approximately 2 pm, waited at a celebrity lodge in Alipore, round kilometres away. He become summoned to Camac Street after four pm.
“The countdown to the stop in addition to a starting has begun,” he informed journalists earlier than leaving for Kolkata. The Kolkata Police tightened safety across the lodge and at Camac Street.
Recognised as a heavyweight chief, Singh joined the BJP in March 2019 and defeated TMC’s then sitting Barrackpore MP Dinesh Trivedi that 12 months. The election become marked via way of means of violence which keeps intermittently withinside the region.
Sixty-12 months-vintage Singh’s tenure withinside the BJP become marked via way of means of repeated violence in Barrackpore and crook investigations initiated in opposition to him via way of means of the kingdom police in reference to monetary irregularities in the course of Singh’s tenure as a councillor of Bhatpara municipality from 2010 to 2019. He become additionally a four-time TMC legislator from Bhatpara and served as chairman of the municipality.
Hours earlier than Singh officially joined the TMC, the BJP management conceded loss.
“Nobody is aware of what criticism he has. Had we received the meeting polls final 12 months we might have made him Bengal’s leader minister. Sadly, we aren't in that position,” BJP country wide vice-president Dilip Ghosh mockingly stated.
“How may want to Singh win the Barrackpore seat and 17 different BJP applicants win the 2019 Lok Sabha polls if our celebration exists simplest on social media?” Ghosh quipped withinside the evening.
Singh began out distancing himself from the BJP months ago, frequently criticising the management in public.
He expressed his dissatisfaction with the Central authorities in April whilst he stated Bengal’s jute mills, a lot of which dot North 24 Parganas, are struggling losses due to the fact in September 2021 the jute commissioner’s workplace capped the fee of uncooked jute to ₹6,500 consistent with quintal. Demanding a decrease fee, he stated if Mamata Banerjee began out an agitation in this difficulty he might be part of it.
On May 9, Singh met Union textiles minister Piyush Goyal in Delhi and the jute commissioner’s workplace ultimately issued a notification revoking the sooner order with impact from May 20. The order, however, did now no longer kingdom a brand new fee and Singh upped the ante.
Since Singh become concurrently criticising the Bengal BJP management, the celebration’s country wide president, J P Nadda, met him in Delhi on May 16. This assembly made it clean that Singh become approximately to go away the BJP due to the fact at the same time as leaving Nadda’s house he stated: “Wait for 15 days and you'll see what happens.”
With Singh’s exit, the range of BJP Lok Sabha participants in Bengal has come down from 18 to 16.
Former Union minister Babul Supriyo, who received the April 12 Ballygunge meeting via way of means of-ballot in Kolkata, left the BJP final 12 months after being dropped from the Narendra Modi authorities. He joined the TMC in September.
The TMC has been eroding the BJP’s base in North 24 Parganas for the reason that meeting polls in 2021 wherein the saffron camp suffered losses withinside the district.
Singh’s brother-in-regulation Sunil Singh, a former TMC legislator, lower back to the ruling celebration on February thirteen this 12 months alongside together along with his son, Aditya. The BJP MP’s nephew, Saurav Singh, the previous chairman of Bhatpara municipality, accompanied suit. All 3 had joined the BJP whilst Arjun Singh left the ruling celebration.
On Sunday afternoon, Singh’s fans pulled down BJP flags from his house and the celebration’s workplace. His profile pictures on social media pages had been additionally changed.
Jyotipriya Mallick, the TMC’s heavyweight chief from North 24 Parganas, is taken into consideration certainly considered one among Arjun Singh’s vintage rivals.
Mallick, who become inducted into the TMC’s new country wide operating committee in February, stated, “If our celebration’s pinnacle management needs Arjun Singh to sign up for, we are able to take delivery of it.”
In May 2021, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal police served summons to Singh in reference to an alleged financial offence. The first facts report (FIR) in this situation become lodged on July 28, 2020. The fees had been delivered below numerous sections of the Indian Penal Code and Section thirteen of the Prevention of Corruption Act. Singh alleged that he were made a sufferer of political vendetta.
In September final 12 months the Union domestic ministry requested the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to probe a bomb assault outdoor Singh’s domestic at Bhatpara. At least 3 crude bombs had been hurled via way of means of miscreants. The MP become now no longer at domestic and no person become injured. The Centre requested the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) to offer safety for Singh in view of those incidents.
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