Soon the name of the “Bhaipo” (nephew) would become public when the newspapers would carry his name following CBI investigations. This was what Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh on Sunday said following a diatribe by Trinamool leader Kunal Ghosh who attacked the BJP leadership for maligning TMC leaders by using innuendo.
With the BJP mounting a broadside on Trinamool Congress’ “nephew” (read Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee) for usurping the party affairs forcing all the “self-respecting” leaders to quit the outfit, the TMC on Sunday launched a counterattack asking the saffron leadership to “nephew and stop making innuendo.”
In a scathing attack on the BJP leadership for “acting like cowards” TMC leader Kunal Ghosh on Sunday said “if the BJP leaders have the courage they should directly take the name of the said nephew and stop making innuendos … they are behaving like cowards…. Take the name be specific and then see the consequences.” The immediate reference of Ghosh’s remark was a previous statement by BJP’s observer for Bengal Kailash Vijaybargiya who referred to the “nephew” saying how the Trinamool Congress had
been usurped by the said person.
Vijaybargiya told an audience at Ramnagar in East Midnapore how “TMC does not belong to Mamata Banerjee, neither it belongs to Mukul Roy or Suvendu Adhikary who made the party but it has gone into the hands of the “nephew” who calls the shots and who takes all the decisions today compelling all the self-respecting leaders to quit the party … a number of these leaders are preparing to leave the party and soon the Trinamool will be half-empty.”
Subhendu Adhikary a powerful State Minister and the Chief Minister’s Nandigram spearhead with massive mass following had recently been in the news for his rebellious ways letting the critics to say that he was on the verge of joining the BJP.
Adhikary and Chief Minister’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee had not been on good terms ever since junior Banerjee, --- an MP from Diamond Harbour --- replaced the former as the party’s youth wing chief.
Referring to Vijaybargiya’s statement Ghosh said “it has become a habit of the BJP leadership sully the image of opposition leaders but that trick will not work in Bengal as they will be rejected by the people.”
Dilip Ghosh however defended Vijabargiya saying everyone knew who the ‘Bhaipo’ (nephew) was. “Everyone knows who the Bhaipo is … there is no need to take his name as such,” Ghosh said adding “in any case the name of the Bhaipo would soon be published by the newspapers after the CBI will take actions against him.”
He further said that there were some people who are recognized by their pseudo names “like everyone knows as to who Didi is … similarly everyone knows who the Bhaipo is … hence the people will easily understand who Vijabargiya ji was referring to and we are only interested in making the people understand about things.”
Meanwhile, in a related development Pradesh Congress leadership is likely to submit reports to Rahul Gandhi with whom the PCC will hold a virtual meeting on November 27. “In the meeting the PCC is likely to submit its reports on organizational affairs including the prospectsof its alliance with the Left Front, sources said.