{"id":10887,"date":"2020-11-20T11:23:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T05:53:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=10887"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:07:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:37:15","slug":"subhendu-adhikary-mamata-banerjee-hasnt-driven-me-out-yet-i-am-still-with-the-trinamool-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/subhendu-adhikary-mamata-banerjee-hasnt-driven-me-out-yet-i-am-still-with-the-trinamool-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Subhendu Adhikary: Mamata Banerjee hasn\u2019t driven me out yet, I am still with the Trinamool Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: #F9F9F9; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Kohinoor Bangla'; color: #555555;\">Trinamool Congress leader and senior West Bengal minister Subhendu Adhikary has been in the news over the past few months with the speculation that he may quit his party and join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Adhikary has been appearing in public meetings without the party banner and wooing people on his \u201cindividual capacity\u201d for the past few weeks. On Thursday too, he didn\u2019t make his position clear, leading to more speculations on his next course of action. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: #F9F9F9; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Kohinoor Bangla'; color: #555555;\">At Ramnagar of East Midnapore district, the state transport minister attacked Trinamool Congress without naming the party, and was even attacking on a section of the media for the speculations around him. \u201cI continue to be a member of a political party, a cabinet minister and what I do is not a profession but a passion for me,\u201d Adhikary said, adding that \u201cthe chief minister has not yet driven me away, and neither have I quit the party. I am not someone who works without ethics.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: #F9F9F9; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Kohinoor Bangla'; color: #555555;\">At the public meeting, Adhikary further said, \u201cI am not a migratory bird. Differences of opinion can lead to parting of ways. But till the time those who are in control drives one away, it is not right to say these things.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; background: #F9F9F9; margin: 0cm 0cm 7.5pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Kohinoor Bangla'; color: #555555;\">He was sarcastic about the newspapers who, he alleged, had created a \u201chype\u201d around him. \u201cThose who have created this hype, it is your responsibility. I have close ties with everyone and I don\u2019t reach out to them only seeking votes. I am with them during lockdown, COVID and Amphan.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Kohinoor Bangla'; color: #555555;\">Party insiders say that Subhendu Adhikary\u2019s words indicated that he is still open to work things out with his party leaders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[Image from earlier public meeting]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Adhikary continue to be with the Trinamool Congress?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":10866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[387,57,49,411,46],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10887","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal","8":"category-politics","9":"tag-assembly-elections-2021","10":"tag-bjp","11":"tag-mamata-banerjee","12":"tag-subhendu-adhikary","13":"tag-trinamool-congress"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10887"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=10887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}