The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prides itself on being a cadre-based political organization. Analysts attribute this cadre base and inherent discipline to fewer cases of exodus from the BJP being passed on to other parties. However, reports from West Bengal suggest that the situation here may be different.
In the run-up to the West Bengal assembly elections, the BJP became a dissident lodge of the Trinamool Congress (TMC). More than 30 TMC leaders switched to the BJP, creating enough ripple in the West Bengal electoral pool that led many to believe the party would win its final frontier in the east.
But Mamata Banerjee got in the way of the electoral juggernaut of the BJP like a cyclone from the Bay of Bengal. It created a pro-trunk wave that left the BJP hurt and battered. Now it seems like she is seeing the BJP break up in Bengal.
A reverse operation Kamal is on the anvil in West Bengal. Several BJP leaders who left the TMC before the general election are turning to the Prime Minister of West Bengal or anyone close to them almost unconditionally.
Many of them are MLAs. The TMC has claimed that of 77 MLAs who won the West Bengal Assembly elections on the BJP tickets were eager to return to their motherhood. They ask for forgiveness from Mamata Banerjee for joining the BJP, who ignored their cadres and hoped that TMC renegades could bring them to power in West Bengal.
Among the big names speculated to be planning their ghar-wapasi is Mukul Roy, the vice president of the BJP. He joined the BJP in 2017 and was appointed vice president of the party within a very short time when the leadership announced positive results in the West Bengal assembly elections.
Mukul Roy won the general election from the seat of Krishnanagar Uttar in the Nadia district of West Bengal. It sparked speculation of returning to the TMC after Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee visited the hospital where his wife was admitted to treat Covid-19.
Mukul Roy received a call the next morning from Prime Minister Narendra Modi inquiring about the health of the Bengal MLA wife. This happened last week.
Meanwhile, the former rail minister skipped a meeting in Kolkata on Tuesday convened by Bengali BJP chief Dilip Ghosh, who was on the receiving end after Mamata Banerjees TMC beat the party in the general election. he had missed another meeting of the BJP lawmakers convened by Dilip Ghosh on May 7th.
In the absence of Dilip Ghosh’s convened meeting, Mukul Roy was joined by Bengali BJP spokesman Shamik Bhattacharya and another heavyweight leader, Rajib Banerjee. Like Mukul Roy, Shamik Bhattacharya and Rajib Banerjee had joined the BJP transition from the TMC.
Suvendu Adhikari, the new figurehead of the BJP in Bengal for defeating Mamata Banerjee in the parliamentary elections, was not present at the meeting called by Dilip Ghosh. But he was in Delhi for two days where he met BJP President JP Nadda, Union Interior Minister Amit Shah and then Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Bengal “Informed Rumors” suggest that these three may be part of the big “Reverse Operation Kamal” that the TMC is targeting. The “rumor” has been fueled by the not-so-secret rivalry between Mukul Roy and Suvendu Adhikari since their TMC days.
Operation Kamal is an unofficial name for the large-scale conversion of MLAs from rival parties to the BJP. The name gained popularity over the years from such cases in Karnataka. Bengali political observers believe that Mamata Banerjee is trying her hand at a fresh canvas that paints her new political image for rivals in the BJP.
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