Former MP Kunal Ghosh speaks with the media in Kolkata on May 1, 2024. TMC on Wednesday eliminated Mr. Ghosh from the publish of get together’s West Bengal normal secretary for making statements not aligning with the get together.
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The Trinamool Congress on Wednesday eliminated Kunal Ghosh from the publish of normal secretary hours after the TMC chief was seen at a non-political occasion within the metropolis with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Kolkata North candidate Tapas Roy.
“Kunal Ghosh has been expressing views that don’t align with the party… Mr. Ghosh was previously relieved from his role as party spokesperson. Now he has been removed from the position of general secretary of the state organisation,” the TMC stated in an announcement.
The assertion signed by TMC’s Rajya Sabha chief Derek O’Brien, additionally requested media retailers to not conflate Mr. Ghosh’s views with these of the get together and warned that this may invite authorized motion.
Mr. Ghosh, a former Rajya Sabha MP, was arrested by the West Bengal police in reference to the Saradha chit fund rip-off and was launched from jail after 34 months in custody. The journalist turned politician warmed as much as the TMC and in June 2021, he was appointed the get together’s state normal secretary. In the run as much as the Lok Sabha polls the TMC has been grappling with the problem of senior members “extending political courtesies” and defending leaders and candidates of opposition events, in addition to showing at occasions with them.
Reacting to the press assertion issued by the TMC, Mr. Ghosh accused accused his get together of double requirements and stated that when actor and MP Dipak Adhikari alias Dev prolonged a political courtesy to Mithun Chakraborty who’s campaigning for the BJP no motion was taken.
Courtesy to BJP’s Mithun
After Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee focused Mithun Chakraborty calling him a “traitor” for becoming a member of the BJP, Dev stated that he doesn’t help such language in politics and Mithun Chakraborty was like his father. Mr. Ghosh had criticised Dev for being gentle on those that criticised the get together management. Dev, who’s well-known actor in Bengali cinema is contesting as TMC candidate from Ghatal Lok Sabha constituency.
Mr. Ghosh stated that he had up to now expressed his need to stop the publish of spokesperson and normal secretary and he stays an unusual get together employee.
This isn’t the primary time that Kunal Ghosh has been on the centre of debate within the TMC management. Perceived near TMC normal secretary Abhishek Banerjee, he has backed Ms. Banerjee on the problem of a retirement age in politics. Recently Mr. Ghosh had criticised suspended chief and former Education Minister Partha Chatterjee for statements about TMC chief and Kolkata North candidate Sudip Banerjee.
At the blood donation camp in Kolkata North, the place Mr. Ghosh shared the dais with the BJP candidate, he had emphasised that Sudip Banerjee was his get together candidate however added that Tapas Roy was a public consultant whose doorways are at all times open for normal folks.
Kolkata North, which might be going to polls within the final part on June 1 has thrown up an attention-grabbing contest between veteran TMC chief Sudip Banerjee and Tapas Roy who joined the BJP about 54 days in the past. Reacting to the Ghosh incident, the BJP candidate stated that the TMC doesn’t imagine in political courtesy. The Congress has nominated senior chief Pradip Bhattacharya who can be being supported by Left events as a candidate from Kolkata North Lok Sabha seat.
Source: www.thehindu.com
