In front of the visit of Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP public president JP Nadda to West Bengal to figure out contrasts in the party’s state unit, Union Minister of State Santanu Thakur on Tuesday said that he left different WhatsApp gatherings of the party.
However the state BJP administration is quiet over the issue, sources said that Thakur, who addresses Bongaon Lok Sabha seat and is a Matua people group pioneer, is despondent over the “need portrayal of Matua pioneers” in the state and region boards of the party which was as of late reconstituted.
“I won’t care to remark on my leaving the WhatsApp bunches at the present time. Allow the ideal opportunity to come, I will let you know the justification for my activities and my tentative arrangements,” Thakur, who holds the arrangement of MoS Ports, Shipping and Waterways, told mediapersons on Tuesday.
Lately, nine BJP MLAs have left the party’s WhatsApp bunches communicating their discontent over the new state panel shaped by the party.
On December 25, five MLAs — Mukutmoni Adhikari, Subrata Thakur, Ambica Roy, Asok Kirtania and Asim Sarkar left a few WhatsApp gatherings of the party communicating their dismay over their avoidance from the state panel. The vast majority of them have a place with the Matua people group.
After a day, four MLAs from Bankura locale — Amarnath Sakha, Dibakar Ghorami, Niladri Sekhar Dana and Nirmal Dhara — additionally left the party’s WhatsApp gatherings.