Jitendra Tiwari is among several TMC leaders who have come out against the party leadership recently. (ANI)
Trinamool Congress MLA Jitendra Tiwari became the second leader after Suvendu Adhikari to quit the party on Thursday. Tiwari also resigned from the post of chairman of the administrative board of the Asansol Municipal Corporation. However, Tiwari said he would not resign from the MLA post.
The development comes days after Tiwari, MLA of Pandabeswar, wrote a letter to West Bengal Urban Development Minister Firhad Hakim, accusing the government of depriving the industrial town of Asansol of central funds
under the smart city project.
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In the letter, Tiwari wrote that the Centre had chosen Asansol under the Smart City Mission project under which the town would be granted funds wort Rs 2,000 crore for developmental work. But “due to political reasons Asansol wasn’t allowed to get the benefits of this project by the state government,” the letter stated.
Addressing the party workers on Thursday, Jitendra Tiwari said, “We have been deprived of the smart city. We have also been deprived of the solid waste management system. Asansol has been deprived of many development works.”
Jitendra Tiwari is among several TMC leaders who have come out against the party leadership recently. While party heavyweight Suvendhu Adhikari has quit TMC, Tiwari, TMC MP Sunil Mandal and Bengal forest minister Rajib Banerjee have also spoken out against the party.
Atri Mitra is a Special Correspondent of The Indian Express with more than 20 years of experience in reporting from West Bengal, Bihar and the North-East. He has been covering administration and political news for more than ten years and has a keen interest in political development in West Bengal.
Atri holds a Master degree in Economics from Rabindrabharati University and Bachelor's degree from Calcutta University. He is also an alumnus of St. Xavier's, Kolkata and Ramakrishna Mission Asrama, Narendrapur.
He started his career with leading vernacular daily the Anandabazar Patrika, and worked there for more than fifteen years. He worked as Bihar correspondent for more than three years for Anandabazar Patrika. He covered the 2009 Lok Sabha election and 2010 assembly elections. He also worked with News18-Bangla and covered the Bihar Lok Sabha election in 2019. ... Read More
