With Arjun Singh’s exit, Suvendu Adhikari’s importance in Bengal BJP increases

Kolkata, May 23 : Following the exit of BJPs heavyweight Barrackpore MP and partys state Vice President, Arjun Singh, importance of the West Bengals Leader of Opposition, Suvendu Adhikari has increased in the party.

The BJPs central leadership, on Monday, has entrusted Adhikari to take charge of the partys organisation set-up in Barrackpore and fill up the structural vacuum created out of the exit of Singh, who rejoined the ruling Trinamool Congress on Sunday evening.

The decision was taken at a organisational meeting of the partys state unit at a hotel in New Town in the northern outskirts of Kolkata on Monday afternoon, which was attended among others BJPs national IT cell chief and partys central observer for West Bengal, Amit Malviya, West Bengal unit chief, Dr Sukanta Majumdar and state General Secretary, Organisation), Amitava Chakraborty, among others.BJP national Vice President and party MP, Dilip Ghosh also attended the meeting virtually.

State BJP sources said that the proposal to make Adhikari in-charge of Barrackpore was mooted by Malviya and the proposal was accepted.It is learnt that on May 26, Adhikari will chair an organizational meeting at Barrackpore and there he will try to have an idea of the existing organisational set up there and the possible vacuum that needs to be filled up following Arjun Singhs exit.

Reacting to the development, Singh said that Adhikari will now understand the difficulties he had been facing in Barrackpore in sailing through the BJPs organisational network in Barrackpore."But, anyway, the party has given him the charge and I wish him all the best.

I will welcome him in my area as the Leader of the Opposition.But I doubt.

very soon he will also become redundant in BJP," Singh said.src/vd #Arjun #Singhs #exit #Suvendu #Adhikaris #importance #West Bengal #Barrackpore #Kolkata #Kolkata #Idea #Congress #Trinamool Congress.