Kolkata--After nephew Abhishek, another close relative of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has jumped into the political arena. And at least two others look set to follow.
“Just as Kashmir’s apples will not grow in Bengal, so too will the BJP lotus never bloom here,” Kartick Banerjee, one of Mamata’s five brothers, told a Trinamool Congress election meeting not far from Didi’s Kalighat home last week. “This land is not for communal dangaa.”
Abhishek is already an important Trinamool leader and key campaigner for the municipal elections of April 18.
Apart from Kartick, two other brothers of Mamata’s, Swapan Banerjee alias Babon and Ganesh Banerjee too have been campaigning for Trinamool candidates, a senior South Kolkata party leader said.
Kartick spoke for nearly 45 minutes on Friday to a crowd of several hundred people at an election meeting for Manjushree Majumdar, TMC candidate for ward 83.
He spoke on a range of issues from Junglemahal to “fake” reports of starvation deaths in the tea gardens, from the “disinformation” campaign over suicides by potato farmers to allegedly false media reports of blue-and-white paint, and from the alleged chaos in the state BJP to the CPM’s growing irrelevance.
Indian Express
