To Brigade, with a lesson learnt during lockdown Somnath Majumdar, a BJP supporter till the pandemic hit the country, will be there to demand an alternative in the form of fledgling Left-Congress-ISF alliance
Somnath Majumdar, 22, from Nadia’s Santipur and a staunch BJP supporter till the pandemic hit the country last March, will be in the Brigade Parade Grounds on Sunday to demand a “bikolpo (alternative)” in the form of the fledgling Left-Congress-ISF alliance.
As he puts it, last year’s pandemic-induced lockdown changed the life of a waiter in a Pune bar.
“I had to come back to Bengal as I lost my job.… And as I lived in penury for months and local BJP leaders turned their faces away when I sought their help, I realised that poor people like me can rely only on the Left,” said the youth who had actively campaigned for the BJP before the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.