Trinamool Congress\u2019 internal strife came out in the open with party MP Aparupa Poddar saying that fellow MP Kalyan Bandopadhyay should resign from the position of the party’s Lok Sabha chief whip. Poddar is the MP from Arambagh while Bandopadhyay is the MP of Serampore.<\/p>\n
Her grouse against Bandopadhyay is due to his public statement made against the party general secretary, Abhishek Banerjee, who is also Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee\u2019s nephew. \u201cIf anyone has anything to say, they should express it within the party and not outside. This amounts to making statements against the party and is an anti-party work,\u201d Poddar said.<\/p>\n
Last week, Abhishek Banerjee had said that social and political events should be suspended for two months in view of the COVID situation, and had added that it was his \u201cpersonal\u201d opinion. He had also arranged for huge number of tests from his Lok Sabha constituency, Diamond Harbour, which was appreciated from some quarters. Under this background, Kalyan Bandopadhyay had said made statements against Abhishek Banerjee, saying \u201cpersonal opinions\u201d should not be expressed by a person holding an important post of a political party and it is a \u201cfull-time\u201d position.<\/p>\n
After Aparupa Poddar\u2019s statements, Kalyan Bandopadhyay further said that the only leader he followed is Mamata Banerjee. His statements were also criticised by Trinamool\u2019s spokesperson Kunal Ghosh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Trinamool Congress\u2019 internal strife came out in the open with party MP Aparupa Poddar saying that fellow MP Kalyan Bandopadhyay should resign from the position of the party’s Lok Sabha chief whip. Poddar is the MP from Arambagh while Bandopadhyay is the MP of Serampore. Her grouse against Bandopadhyay is due to his public statement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":16538,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[135,5542,582,5541,714,49,583,46],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-16537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-abhishek-banerjee","tag-aparupa-poddar","tag-cover-story","tag-kalyan-bandopadhyay","tag-kunal-ghosh","tag-mamata-banerjee","tag-top-story","tag-trinamool-congress"],"yoast_head":"\n