There was more haze around senior Bengal Minister and power Trinamool Congress leader Subhendu Adkary’s future political move.
Leaving more suspense around his political plans, Adhikary, once the Nandigram spearhead of the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday told a mass rally unattended by any of the senior TMC leaders that there were so many political things which could not be dwelt from within the Cabinet.
“There are so many things which cannot be said when you are still in the Cabinet… and I am still a Minister and a primary member of the party … as neither I have been expelled by the Chief Minister nor I have left the party on my own,” Adhikary the most powerful satrap in the TMC after the Chief Minister with a strong organizational base in more than one districts apart from his own East Midnapore said.
“There can be differences of opinion which may lead to dispute and that may cause splits but till you are in the party you cannot say something political things which should not be said,” he said reminding how he was “not the cuckoo that sings only during the Spring … I am not the one who enjoys the comfort of my house. Rather I spend my days in the political field and I am the person who never compromises on questions of policy and ideology.”
A team of senior TMC leaders led by MP Saugato Roy had been holding talks with Adhikary to address his grievances that allegedly include the rising importance of Chief Minister’s nephew and MP Abhishek Banerjee in the Trinamool’s scheme of things.
Notwithstanding the internal issues, a parallel opinion in the party says that Adhikary --- who is under scanner in Narada and other chit fund scams --- has been under tremendous pressure from the BJP to come out of his party and join the saffron group a la another very senior former Trinamool leader Mukul Roy.
Independent posters of Adhikary who has not attended at least two Cabinet meetings in the recent past have been appearing in a number of districts including East and West Midnapore, Bankura, Malda,
Murshidabad and elsewhere with catch lines saying “We are with our leader Subhendu Adhikary.”
Meanwhile, reacting to the intra-party imbroglio Saugato Roy on Thursday said that he had talks with the rebel minister and “have communicated his grievances to our party chief Mamata Banerjee. Next week we will again sit and talk and then wait for the decisions taken by the Chief Minister. By the next week things will be get clearer… Till then he is still a member of Trinamool Congress.”
When asked to comment about his future political moves regarding the BJP a close associate of Adhikary said “till you are in a party you the member of that party … when you will join another party you will become a member of that party… but we can say that wherever he goes a large number of supporters will move out of the TMC.”