{"id":11176,"date":"2020-12-22T17:58:08","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T12:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=11176"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:07:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:37:09","slug":"sougata-roy-why-didnt-subhendu-dare-to-form-his-own-party-if-he-didnt-like-trinamool-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/sougata-roy-why-didnt-subhendu-dare-to-form-his-own-party-if-he-didnt-like-trinamool-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Sougata Roy: Why didn\u2019t Subhendu dare to form his own party if he didn\u2019t like Trinamool anymore?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veteran Trinamool Congress leader Sougata Roy on Tuesday asked why Subhendu Adhikary didn\u2019t \u201cdare to form his own party\u201d if he was so frustrated and unhappy with the Trinamool Congress. \u201cMamata Banerjee severed ties with the Congress and formed her own party, because she dared to. Why did Subhendu Adhikary not have the courage to do the same? Why did he land up in the BJP?\u201d Roy asked.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, Adhikary \u2013 at a public meeting in East Burdwan\u2019s Purbashali \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/trinamool-would-have-perished-in-1998-without-the-bjp-subhendu-adhikary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #993300;\">said that the Trinamool Congress would have perished in 1998 had the BJP not supported it<\/span><\/a>. Answering this, Roy said that while it is true that the Trinamool had formed an alliance with the BJP, the former had severed ties with the BJP after after the Gujarat riots of 2002. \u201cPeople are upset with Subhendu Adhikary because he has joined a communal party,\u201d Roy said. He added that Adhikary\u2019s name will be remembered like that of Mir Jafar, for being a traitor. \u201cFor years, he was minister, MLA, MP and headed big posts, lapped up the ghee, milk and cream by using Mamata Banerjee\u2019s name. People will respond appropriately to such traitors,\u201d Roy said.<\/p>\n<p>The Trinamool Congress MP added that he was witness to the fact that Subhendu Adhikary had said during their internal meetings that he had no differences with MP Abhishek Banerjee. \u201cIn all the meetings he said he has no problem with Abhishek Banerjee, but now, publicly he is alluding to him as \u2018nephew\u2019 and calling him extortionist. No one should stoop so low the way Subhendu has,\u201d Roy said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subhendu attacks Abhishek Banerjee, Mamata Banerjee; Roy responds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":11177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6],"tags":[135,387,57,49,555,413,411,46,553,403],"class_list":["post-11176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-bengal","category-politics","tag-abhishek-banerjee","tag-assembly-elections-2021","tag-bjp","tag-mamata-banerjee","tag-new-bengal-bjp-recruits","tag-sougata-roy","tag-subhendu-adhikary","tag-trinamool-congress","tag-trinamool-congress-rebels","tag-west-bengal-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11176","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=11176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}