TMC feud turns nasty in Birbhum

SURI: Just a day after top Trinamool leaders in the district held a meeting at Suri, Birbhum MP Satabdi Roy convened another meeting on Saturday and said she's not game for "dirty politics". She also stressed on weeding out factionalism among party ranks. However, two meeting within 24 hours by two factions laid bare the in-fighting among party colleagues.
On Friday, state minister Chandranath Singh, Labhpur MLA Manirul Islam and most councilors of Suri Municipality lambasted Suri MLA Swapan Ghosh in a meeting."Our leader Mamata Banerjee has ordered the MLAs to spend more time in their constituencies. But our MLA stay here on week-ends only. We do not get his co-operation in development work," said Ujjal Mukherjee, chairman of Suri Municipality.
However, on the very next day, Roy, along with Ghosh and Rampurhat MLA Ashis Banerjee, held a rally at Suri DRDC Hall and tried to cleanse the party's image. "People expect a lot from our government but some of us are causing harm to the party. It is more dangerous that the attack by the CPM or other parties. It is not the CPM, now we ourselves are our own enemy," Roy told the gathering.
"Those who are encouraging factionalism in the party are doing garbage politics. I would like to remind you that their conception is wrong," she added.
Meanwhile a couple of weeks ago Gadhadhar Hazra, MLA from Nanoor and Seikh Sahanwaj, MLA from Ketugram (Burdwan) organised another public meeting in Nanoor . Sahanwaj himself originally hailed from Nanoor though he contested from Ketugram. Immediately after that meeting the 'Birbhum district conference' was held in Bolpur in which district TMC president Anubrata Mondal was present. In that 'district conference' Satbadi Roy, Ashis Banerjee, Swapan Ghosh , Gadadhar Hazra remain absent. The MLA from Murarai and animal resources minister Nure Alam Chowdhury maintained distance from all factions by do not attending any of the meetings.