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Congress divided over Mamata’s walkout: Jairam supports her, Adhir feels she is lying
West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury sought President Droupadi Murmu’s intervention to ‘restore law and order’ in the State
West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury.
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On a day when the Congress leadership in Delhi came out in support of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, saying the treatment she received at the NITI Aayog meeting was “unacceptable”, State Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury alleged Ms. Banerjee may be lying.
Ms. Banerjee on July 27 stormed out of the NITI Aayog meeting, alleging that she had not been allowed to complete her remarks and her microphone had been switched off.
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“It muzzles all divergent and dissenting viewpoints, which are the very essence of an open democracy. Its meetings are a farce to be reckoned with. Its treatment of the West Bengal CM today, although typical of the NITI Aayog, is unacceptable,” Congress general secretary (communications) Jairam Ramesh posted on social media platform X.
The non-biological PM in his address to NITI Aayog has woken up to the realisation that India needs to make policies conducive to international investments, that is FDI.
For ten long years He has indeed encouraged FDI–Fear, Deceit and Intimidation. And now He pontificates.… pic.twitter.com/poNgNcYPEB— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) July 27, 2024
Ms. Banerjee also suggested that she was the only Chief Minister present from Opposition-ruled States, and was speaking on behalf of entire Opposition. The Trinamool Congress is part of the Opposition Indian National Developmental, Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc.
Mamata’s claims on NITI Aayog meet lies: Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
Mr. Chowdhury is considered one of most vocal critics of the Trinamool Congress chairperson. He lost the 2024 Lok Sabha election from Baharampur to the Trinamool’s Yusuf Pathan. The State’s ruling party had placed the blame on Mr. Chowdhury for not being able to stitch an alliance between the two parties in West Bengal.
Mr. Chowdhury on Saturday wrote to President Droupadi Murmu, alleging that West Bengal was in an “anarchic condition”, and sought the President’s intervention to “restore law and order” in the State.
“I wish to seek your kind intervention in restoring civility and law and order in public life in West Bengal. For me, at a personal level, it is not only disturbing but also deeply anguishing to see the anarchic condition in the State owing to the ruthless approach of the ruling party on the workers, sympathisers, and supporters of the opposition,” the former MP wrote.
Central BJP team, West Bengal Cong. president stopped from visiting Sandeshkhali
Mr. Chowdhury, referred to the Sandeshkhali violence, clashes in Murshidabad district before the Lok Sabha election, and also, more recently, the killing of a party worker in Jalpaiguri, alleging that there was “absolutely no space for the Opposition in the State”.
Congress worker Manik Roy was killed by a group of people in the early hours of Thursday at Maynaguri in north Bengal. A Trinamool Congress supporter has been arrested in connection with the violence.
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