Amid open dissent, 4 central BJP leaders rush to Tripura

AGARTALA: Amidst dissidence by a section of ruling BJP MLAs and leaders in Tripura, four senior party leaders arrived in the State on Monday for a week-long visit to plug the shortcomings, both in the government and the organization.

BJP's Tripura chief spokesman Subrata Chakraborty said that the central leaders, led by party's North East Zonal Secretary, Organisation, Ajay Jamwal, would meet Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, state president Manik Saha, all ministers, MLAs, State and district leaders and would obtain their views about the governance and functioning of the party organization.

The other Bharatiya Janata Party leaders in the team are national general secretary Dilip Saikiya, general secretary in-charge of Tripura-Assam Phanindranath Sharma, and the State's central observer Vinod Sonkar. "The central party leaders would also visit a few districts and subdivisions to meet the grassroot leaders and workers," Chakraborty said.

The central team arrived a day after five dissident BJP MLAs, and former district and state leaders held a meeting here on Sunday. The five MLAs are Sudip Roy Barman, Ashis Kumar Saha, Diba Chandra Hrangkhawl, Ashis Das, and Burba Mohan Tripura.

Barman, a former Health and Information Technology Minister, said that in the meeting, they obtained views and suggestions of the district and local leaders of all the eight districts and these would be communicated to the visiting central leaders.

"Leaders of the government and party organizations are not keen to listen to the opinion, grievances and suggestions of the district and grassroot leaders. That's why the conference was held. This is not against the BJP or to join the Trinamool Congress," the Congress-turned BJP leader said.

A senior BJP leader said that the Chief Minister would expand and reshuffle his council of ministers in line with the recent Union Cabinet reshuffle done by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Without elaborating, the BJP leader said that the exercises both in the ministry and the organization would be done keeping an eye on the next assembly elections, due in February 2023. (IANS)

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