BJP MLAs from Bengal’s Jangalmahal region get restive
The Hindu
After the dissent of MLAs from the Matua community, the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is facing dissent from MLAs of the State’s Jangalmahal region, with legislators writing to
After the dissent of MLAs from the Matua community, the West Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is facing dissent from MLAs of the State’s Jangalmahal region, with legislators writing to theparty president on organisational changes, and also expressing their desire to give up the security cover provided to them by the Centre.
On Friday, two BJP legislators, Bankura MLA Niladri Sekhar Dana and Onda MLA Amarnath Shakha, went on record to say that they had written to the Union Home Ministry, urging that the Central security given to them should be withdrawn.
Only a day ago, sources in the West Bengal BJP had said that five MLAs from the district had written to party president J. P. Nadda, expressing unhappiness over certain organisational appointments. The MLAs are demanding the removal of both Bankura and Bishnupur organisational district presidents.