KOLKATA: A cautious Trinamool Congress on Sunday tried to rein in discordant voices inside the occasion and stated resignation was Jawhar Sircar‘s private prerogative, to which it had nothing so as to add.
However the occasion additionally agreed with Sircar’s “anxieties” and observations”, saying whereas “course correction” was the necessity of the hour, foot troopers would combat the battle from inside the Trinamool fold.
The response to the Rajya Sabha MP’s resignation got here from former Rajya Sabha MP Kunal Ghosh. “He (Sircar) is very revered and completed,” Ghosh stated. “Any step he takes is his private determination, nothing to touch upon that. That’s his freedom. He has labored on the topmost echelons of govt as a bureaucrat, he’s a delicate particular person. He has decided, I cannot add a single phrase to it.”
“The anxieties which Sircar has spoken about and his observations… now we have no second views on a few of it. However folks like us, who’re the occasion’s foot troopers, will combat this battle from the occasion fold,” Ghosh added.
Ghosh’s reactions got here within the backdrop of a number of younger occasion functionaries hitting out at Sircar for “operating away from the battlefield”.
The occasion’s youngest Lok Sabha candidate, Debangshu Bhattacharya, alluding to Sircar, stated: “A water hyacinth floats with the tide. It takes a person to swim in opposition to the tide.” A number of younger leaders additionally took to their X handles to query the occasion management’s technique in bringing in lateral entrants for Rajya Sabha, overlooking loyal occasion veterans.
Ghosh didn’t wade into this. “It’s his (Sircar’s) freedom to do no matter he does, and we respect that. It’s our freedom to remain within the occasion and combat again. That we are going to do,” he stated.
Ghosh, the truth is, appeared to again Sircar’s demand for a course-correction. “His anxieties and observations (within the letter) additionally replicate questions being requested by the folks. On some points, I and a few of my occasion colleagues, additionally agree with him. Political events are utilizing this to poison folks’s minds. However we are going to increase this inside the occasion. We additionally imagine seen, constructive steps are essential. We’ll combat for it, staying inside the occasion fold. Solely conferences and rallies won’t suffice, we’re hopeful that each one essential decisive actions will probably be taken by the occasion,” Ghosh stated.
Ghosh stated Sircar had identified that course-correction was essential to combat again communal forces who had been eyeing Bengal: “He says in his letter that he’s grateful to CM Mamata Banerjee and he additionally speaks of the necessity to combat again communal forces.”
