The Trinamool Congress on Sunday expelled 61 party leaders from North 24 Parganas district alone for filing nomination defying its diktats ahead of the February 27 municipal elections. The party is consideringsimilar steps in cases of other municipal boards too, sources said.
“In consultation with the top leadership the district party has decided to expel the 61 leaders who have gone against the party line and filed nomination either independently or on the tickets of other parties,” district party president Partho Bhowmick said.
Election to 108 municipal boards will be conducted on February 27.
Hundreds of sitting TMC councilors from various districts had revolted and their supporters have been protesting on the streets after they were denied party tickets to contest in the coming elections.
“Discipline is primary in the party and anyone who defies the party decision will be considered to be defying the orders of our party supremo Mamata Banerjee … for such people TMC is not the right place,” said Bhowmick.
BJP spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya said that “the TMC is a party of syndicates where elected posts are a major source of earning … now newfaces have been given tickets because they also want their shares inthe booty … those who have been denied tickets have descended on the streets because they will now lose their source of earning.”
CPI(M)’s Sujan Chakrabarty said that “the TMC will come to an end a sit was born … it rose by corruption and chit fund money and it will die by corruption.”