Silchar TMC in Crisis as 58 Join Congress Ahead of Silchar Panchayat and Corporation Elections

A correspondent

Silchar: The TMC got a major jolt in Silchar prior to the ensuing panchayat and corporation elections as at least 58 post holders joined the Congress. Sajal Kanti Banik, a former ward commissioner as well as close aide of the MP Susmita Dev along with Town Trinamool president Alok Acharjee, Anupam Paul, the district president of the youth wing of the party along with other leaders were welcomed in the Congress by the AICC secretary Prithviraj Sathe in Silchar. Susmita Dev the TMC Rajya Sabha MP, however, downplayed the development as she claimed that it was a ploy to destabilize the Bengali leadership in Assam.

Trinamool Congress, the ruling party of the West Bengal had till now not been able to strengthen its organisational base in the Bengali dominated Barak Valley. In the last Lok Sabha election, the TMC candidate in Silchar  Radheshyam Biswas failed miserably as he polled just 20 thousand votes. In this backdrop, a major section of the TMC in Silchar could see no hope to fare well in the ensuing Corporation election. And hence they preferred to switch over to their old party.

Susmita Dev, however, put up a brave face as she said, Sajal Banik was never been a major factor in the party. Maintaining that BJP had spread the wrong propaganda that the TMC was a party of the Muslim, Susmita said, the Mamata Banerjee never believed in divisive or communal politics.

Meanwhile, Sathe said, they were not at all concerned about the  political future of Susmita Dev who herself left the party even after being the president of the All India Mahila Congress.

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