No family member of West Bengal state opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari is named in the BJP’s list of candidates for the civic polls in Kanthi, the ‘officer’s stronghold’. After the announcement of BJP candidate on Monday, it was seen that no one got BJP ticket in this election.
Shishir Adhikari, Suvendu, Divyendu and Soumendu Adhikari have been holding the post of President of Kanthi Municipality for the last four decades.
The BJP has not given tickets to the Adhikari family, so political experts in the state smell differently.
Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh claimed that Suvendu has no future in the BJP. That’s why he wants to return to TMC again. However, the saffron camp has clearly explained the ‘importance’ of Suvendu in the BJP’s plans.
Kunal Ghosh said that those who left TMC with Suvendu and went to BJP also want to return. In such a situation, the question is whether Mamata Banerjee will give Suvendu a place in the TMC camp again? Kunal, however, has ruled out the possibility.
Kunal said, ‘Those who have gone from TMC to BJP are saying that they want to come back. Suvendu also wants the same.”
At one time the officer’s residence was the base of revolutionary activities in Bengal. They have been in power from district to state level politics. But this is the first time in the last four decades that the name of any family member is not in the candidate list of Kanthi Municipality.
Within a month of Suvendu Adhikari joining the BJP before the last assembly elections, his younger brother Soumendu left the TMC and joined the saffron camp. At that time Soumendu was made General Secretary of Kanthi region of BJP. Soumendu was seen at various BJP programs in Kanthi. However, his name has not yet been included in the BJP’s list in the civic polls. As a result, the Adhikari family would lose to the Kanthi Municipal Council for the first time in the last four decades.
However, Soumendu does not want to speculate about this. He said, ‘I do not work in any private limited company. The party has nominated only those it thinks fit. When we participate in an election there are comments on the issue of ‘family system’. And that’s what’s happening when we’re not there.”
In 1964, Shishir Adhikari was elected as the first commissioner of Kanthi Municipality. He was the chairman of the municipality from 1977 to 1980. He was re-elected president from 1990 to 2009.
After Shishir became an MP, Suvendu Adhikari became the chairman of Kanthi Municipality for six months. Soumendu Adhikari was the chairman from 2010 to 2020. Another representative of the Adhikari family, MP Divyendu Adhikari, was also a councilor till 2010-15.
The Trinamool camp is saying that the BJP has kept the Adhikari family away from the elections. Minister of State Firhad Hakim said, “He knows that he will be defeated. So he did not want to contest the elections out of fear.”
But BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar said, ‘Our candidates are selected after discussion with everyone. Not like other parties.”
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