Trinamool MLA issues open unity appeal in Cooch Behar

Cooch Behar: The Trinamool MLA from Cooch Behar’s Sitai made an open appeal to all party leaders in the district to unite and fight the 2021 assembly polls instead of “gifting” the district to BJP.
“We all have to decide if we want Trinamool to stand on firm ground,” said Sitai MLA Jagadish Barma Basunia. The public meeting gained significance after Trinamool’s Cooch Behar South MLA severed ties with the party.
Basunia told the gathering how he was attacked during Left rule and by BJP.“BJP had set our party’s Sitai office on fire after the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. I won’t forget how two leaders, Rabindranath Ghosh and Udayan Guha, came to Sitai and handed over the party flag to our workers,” he said.
But fissures in Trinamool came out in the open when Basunia referred to the “anger” against those who got elected from Cooch Behar in 2016. He didn’t name the present district leadership though. Basunia’s detractors in Trinamool said the MLA was unsure of getting a nomination this time and was trying to “cobble up” with minister Ghosh, Guha and Hiten Burman to put pressure on the district leadership.