Resignation and an Expulsion: Trouble for Mamata Banerjee Worsens Ahead of Assembly Polls
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Hours after West Bengal Forest Minister Rajib Banerjee resigned from the Mamata Banerjee government in West Bengal, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Friday expelled its party MLA Vaishali Dalmia after a meeting of the disciplinary committee.
The decision to expel Dalmia came as for the last few months she has been publicly criticizing the party, sources said. Her accusations against the functioning of a few TMC leaders had intensified following the resignation of state minister and former cricketer Laxmi Ratan Shukla.
Recently, she had claimed that some people within the party and ‘outsiders’ (hinting at Prashant Kishor) were ‘eating up the TMC like termites’. She also alleged that efficient people were not being allowed to work independently for the greater interest of the people in the state.
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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.
TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee accuses BJP of luring party leaders with money ANI | Updated: Jan 17, 2021 21:16 IST
Howrah (West Bengal) [India], January 17 (ANI): Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee on Sunday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of luring TMC leaders with money.
Addressing a public rally in Liluah, Banerjee said that the BJP is trying to lure TMC leaders and workers in Bengal. Some left the TMC out of ambition for the post of chief minister or deputy chief minister. Some are still with us but are in a dilemma whether to join the BJP or not, he said.
Recalling the lines of a popular Hindi song Nach meri Bulbul toh paisa milega, Banerjee claimed that former and disgruntled TMC leaders are dancing to the tunes of the BJP.