The Trinamool Congress on Friday said the BJP is being run by "hired people" and that there is no alternative to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal.
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Trinamool feigned indifference to the two quick exits from the party in one day (File)
Kolkata:
Tears, anger and indifference. These three elements added spice to the political drama that unfolded in Kolkata through the day on Friday, starting with the Bengal Forest Minister Rajib Banerjee resigning from his post and bursting into tears after submitting his resignation letter.
After dropping it at the chief minister s home office, he went to Raj Bhavan to give the letter to the governor. Stepping out of the gates, he stood on the road and addressed the media and then about 7 minutes into it, burst into tears.
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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.
Hired people running BJP, no alternative to Mamata in Bengal: TMC
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Updated: Friday, January 22, 2021, 19:12 [IST]
Kolkata, Jan 22: The Trinamool Congress on Friday said the BJP is being run by hired people and that there is no alternative to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal.
Senior TMC leader and Education Minister Partha Chatterjee also said the BJP has become a place for people who have not been able to show loyalty to the party.
Partha Chatterjee BJP is being run by hired people. Trinamool Congress is a big banyan tree. If two or three leaves fall, nothing happens to the tree, he told reporters here.