Kolkata, May 30 (). The tussle between the two parties continues after Byron Biswas, the lone Congress MLA in the West Bengal assembly, joined the Trinamool Congress.
Vishwas was just three months ago elected as the Congress candidate in the Sagardighi assembly bypoll in Murshidabad district.
Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Tuesday issued a Twitter message condemning the horse-trading by the Trinamool Congress leadership to woo elected representatives of other parties.
Taking to Twitter, Ramesh said, three months after being elected as a Congress MLA in a historic victory, Byron Biswas has been poached by the TMC in West Bengal. This is a betrayal of the mandate of the people of Sagardighi assembly constituency. Such illegal work has happened earlier in Goa, Meghalaya, Tripura and other states which will weaken the opposition unity and serve BJP’s cause.
Earlier in West Bengal, State Congress President Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary had said that Vishwas succumbed to the pressure of the ruling party and the administration. First he was offered money by the Trinamool Congress. When he refused, he started receiving threats. This is the strategy of Trinamool Congress. First they try to lure with money and if that fails they make threats.
Biswas’s own argument is that mentally he was always with the Trinamool Congress. He said, I had joined Congress only because Trinamool Congress did not give me ticket in Sagardighi bypoll. Now I am back again in Trinamool Congress to be a part of the development activities started by the state government.
Responding to Ramesh’s Twitter message, Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member Dr. Santanu Sen said that the Congress leadership in West Bengal should understand that instead of trying to weaken Trinamool, the strongest political force in the state, the BJP should be united The focus should be on fighting.
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