ASANSOL: Former Union minister and Asansol MP Babul Supriyo, who had been vocal against Trinamool Congress’s alleged “atrocities” till recently, didn’t attend a dharna on the issue held by Bengal BJP MPs on Wednesday.
The dharna was led by state party president Dilip Ghosh and addressed by Supriyo’s former colleague Debasree Chaudhury, now an MP. According to BJP sources, Bishnupur MP Soumitra Khan was present. Hooghly MP Locket Chatterjee and Barrackpore MP Arjun Singh spoke, along with others.
The absence of the former junior Union minister raised some eyebrows, even after he told his admirers to not pay heed to rumours about his leaving BJP and to judge him by his “deeds”. Supriyo has also become less active on social media.
The Asansol MP took a call from TOI on Wednesday evening but declined to comment on the issue.
In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Supriyo recommended 35 actions to the district magistrate under his MPLAD fund, urging him to take up the work as soon as possible. He captioned it “Manusher Takai Manusher Kaaj (people’s work with public money)”.
