{"id":7071,"date":"2019-10-30T16:18:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T10:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=7071"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:10:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:40:54","slug":"bjp-may-showcause-sovon-chatterjee-for-visiting-mamata-banerjee-but-mukul-sees-nothing-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/bjp-may-showcause-sovon-chatterjee-for-visiting-mamata-banerjee-but-mukul-sees-nothing-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP may showcause Sovon Chatterjee for visiting Mamata Banerjee, but Mukul sees \u201cnothing wrong\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bharatiya Janata Party is likely to showcause new entrant Sovon Chatterjee for visiting Trinamool Congress chief and the state\u2019s chief minister Mamata Banerjee <em>bhai phonta<\/em> on Tuesday. Further action will be decided based on his reply, it is learnt.<\/p>\n<p>Chatterjee\u2019s visit Mamata Banerjee\u2019s place has evoked mixed reactions from BJP leaders in Bengal. Already there are speculations that this may lead to his re-joining the Trinamool Congress (the party he has been associated with since its inception).<\/p>\n<p>However, Mukul Roy \u2013 who joined BJP from Trinamool Congress like Chatterjee \u2013 said that, <em>bhai phonta<\/em> being a \u201csocial ceremony\u201d, he sees no political dimension in the visit.<\/p>\n<p>BJP state general secretary\u00a0Sayantan Basu however, said that Chatterjee was not very active in the party\u2019s work. But his visit to the CM\u2019s place did not mean that he is going to snap ties with the BJP. He however, added that it was up to Chatterjee to decide his own political destiny.<\/p>\n<p>Another senior BJP leader from the state questioned Chatterjee\u2019s allegiance to the BJP since the time he joined the party and additionally questioned his stand on the party\u2019s political ideology.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand Sovon Chatterjee and Baishakhi Banerjee have earlier said that they were not being given important work in the party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mukul Roy said that bhai phonta being a \u201csocial ceremony\u201d, he sees no political dimension in the meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":7072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7071","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=7071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7071"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=7071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}