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Updated Dec 19, 2020 | 06:22 IST
Shah will start his trip to poll-bound Bengal with a visit to Ramakrishna Mission Ashram. He is also scheduled to meet a farmer family and have lunch with them. Union Home Minister Amit Shah | Photo Credit: PTI
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will embark on a two-day visit to West Bengal on Saturday amid the speculation of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s close aid and senior TMC leader Suvendu Adhikari joining the BJP.
Shah will start his trip to poll-bound Bengal with a visit to Ramakrishna Mission Ashram. He is also scheduled to meet a farmer family and have lunch with them. On the first day, he will address a public rally at Midnapore College ground in Paschim Medinipur district.
A day after former minister Suvendu Adhikari resigned from the Trinamool Congress (TMC), Barrackpore MLA Shilbhadra Dutta who had been vocal against the meddling by election strategist Prashant Kishor in party affairs sent his resignation to TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee on Friday. TMC leader Kabirul Islam, too, resigned from the post of general secretary of the party’s minority cell, reportedly expressing displeasure against Kishor’s team. On Thursday evening, Jitendra Tiwari, MLA from Pandabeswar and president of the TMC’s Paschim Bardhaman district unit, had resigned from all positions in the party. Adhikari’s exit from the party was expected to result in a slew of resignations from the TMC, just ahead of Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s visit to West Bengal.
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West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee. (Photo: Facebook/Mamata Banerjee)
Fissures in the Trinamool Congress (TMC) widened on Friday as the party suffered a spree of resignations. The chain that started with the resignation of TMC heavyweight Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday got elongated with two more MLAs Shilbhadra Dutta and Banasri Maity resigning from Mamata Banerjee s party, months ahead of the state assembly elections.
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