West Bengal Forest Minister Rajib Banerjee Quits Mamata Banerjee s Cabinet
West Bengal forest minister Rajib Banerjee quits post, says it was an honour to serve people of the state: Secretariat sources. Rajib Banerjee/ Facebook Outlook Web Bureau 2021-01-22T13:02:11+05:30 West Bengal Forest Minister Rajib Banerjee Quits Mamata Banerjee s Cabinet outlookindia.com 2021-01-22T14:48:30+05:30
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Desertions and dissidence continue to afflict the ruling Trinamool Congress as West Bengal forest minister Rajib Banerjee called it quits on Friday from the Mamata Banerjee cabinet.
Banerjee resigned from his post of West Bengal forest minister and said: it was an honour to serve people of the state .
West Bengal Minister Rajib Banerjee Resigns From WB Govt & Trinamool Congress
Minister Banerjee s resignation comes in the heels of the state s upcoming election, and follows a string of previous defections of TMC leaders to BJP
| 22 Jan 2021 10:19 AM GMT
West Bengal Forest Minister Rajib Banerjee resigned from his position today. The cabinet minister did not give any reasons for his resignation. His resignation, however, comes in the middle of a recent string of exits from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee s Trinamool Congress (TMC) as the state gears up for Assembly elections in the months of March-April. He is the third minister to resign from the state government in one month.
The MLA from Shantipur is the Trinamool s first exit from Nadia district (File)
Kolkata:
Mamata Banerjee s Trinamool Congress continues to lose its leaders to the BJP as the Bengal election draws closer. Today, party MLA Arindam Bhattacharya crossed over to the BJP in Delhi.
The MLA from Shantipur is the Trinamool s first exit from Nadia district.
Last week, Mr Bhattacharya had shared stage with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at a rally in Nadia.
Mr Bhattacharya had won the 2016 Assembly election from Shantipur on a Congress ticket. In 2017, he suddenly switched to the Trinamool Congress. He, however, never resigned as an MLA or sought re-election. He was a vice president of the Trinamool s Nadia district unit, which was headed by MP Mahua Moitra.
: Wednesday, January 20, 2021, 10:10 PM IST
West Bengal: Defection from TMC continues; senior leader Arindam Bhattacharya joins BJP ahead of assembly polls
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A couple of days back, the ruling Trinamool Congress of West Bengal had successfully managed to retain their Birbhum MP Satabdi Roy from defecting to the BJP. It now looks like the party has, however, failed to curb the trend of defection completely as TMC MLA Arindam Bhattacharya defected to the saffron camp in Delhi on Wednesday.
After sharing the stage with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee last week in Nadia, Bhattacharya, the TMC MLA from Shantipur of Nadia district, crossed over to the BJP, marking the first defection from Nadia district.
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