4 Bengal ministers skip Mamata s cabinet meet days after Suvendu moves to BJP
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Published: Tuesday, December 22, 2020, 23:24 [IST]
Kolkata, Dec 22: In more trouble for Mamata Banerjee, four ministers of the West Bengal government skipped cabinet meeting on Tuesday at the state secretariat.
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Though Tourism Minister Gautam Deb, Minister for Fisheries Chandranath Sinha and Minister for North Bengal Development Rabindranath Ghosh cited genuine reasons, the absence of Minister for Forests, Rajib Banerjee seems politically significant as there are strong speculations that he might quit the TMC.
The development is important as the TMC in West Bengal was jolted with a spate of its leaders joining the BJP on a day when Amit Shah visited the state.
Four Ministers skip West Bengal Cabinet meeting chaired by Mamata Banerjee
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Absence of Ministers stokes speculation amid defections from Trinamool to BJP.
Four Ministers of the West Bengal government were absent from a Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the State Secretariat on Tuesday. The development, which comes days after Suvendu Adhikari, a former Cabinet Minister joined the BJP at a rally held by Union Home Minister Amit Shah, has sparked speculation about rising dissent in the Trinamool Congress (TMC).
Two of the absentees were from north Bengal Tourism Minister Gautam Deb and Minister for North Bengal Development Rabindranath Ghosh. However, the absence of these ministers from north Bengal, about 600 km from Kolkata, is not unusual as they have not been attending Cabinet meetings since the outbreak of COVID-19.