Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee eliminated minority affairs and Madrassah schooling minister Ghulam Rabbani and moved him to the horticulture division throughout a cupboard assembly, Monday. The CM will now take cost of the portfolio with Tajmul Hossain because the Minister of State (MoS).
Tajmul Hossain informed ThePrint Monday, “The official notification hasn’t been issued but however Didi (Mamata Banerjee) has requested me to supervise the minority affairs division. A growth board for the welfare of minorities within the state may even be constituted. She’s given directions to strengthen and work for the event of the minorities on floor.”
The choice to take away Rabanni, who took oath as the cupboard minister in Might 2021 comes shut on the heels of the ruling celebration Trinamool Congress’s stunning Sagardighi bypoll defeat.
Get together sources current within the cupboard assembly, who wished to not be named, informed ThePrint, that the CM was miffed with Rabbani as indicators of minority (Muslim group) assist started slipping for the celebration.
In a significant setback, TMC misplaced its first bypoll because the 2021 landslide victory within the state. On 2 March, the Communist Get together of India (Marxist)-backed Congress candidate Bayron Biswas defeated TMC’s Debashish Banerjee by a margin of twenty-two,980 votes. Sagardighi has a 64 per cent minority voteshare, which the Trinamool did not seize.
A 3-time MLA from Uttar Dinajpur, Rabbani was with the Congress earlier than he joined the Trinamool in 2014. In 2016, he gained the state polls and was appointed the minister of state labour division by Mamata Banerjee.
Chatting with the media after the cupboard assembly, state legislation minister Maloy Ghatak stated, “For the event of the minorities throughout the state, the cupboard has given its nod to kind a Minority Growth Board.”
Based on political analyst Udayan Bandopadhyay, the TMC that electorally loved the assist of minorities to defeat the BJP in 2021 needs to make sure it doesn’t lose grip over it earlier than the essential panchayat polls which will probably be a litmus take a look at for 2024 Lok Sabha polls for political events in Bengal.
“Muslim scholar chief Anis Khan’s demise and ISF MLA Naushad Siddiqui being jailed for over a month, adopted by Sagardighi bypoll loss are indicators of fear for the Trinamool Congress. Mamata Banerjee taking cost of the minority affairs division is a transparent signal that she doesn’t need the minority assist to slide.”
On March 17, whereas addressing a celebration assembly at her residence in Kolkata, Mamata Banerjee eliminated Haji Nurul Islam because the president of celebration’s minority cell and appointed first time MLA Mosaraf Hossain as its new chief. She had pulled up Haji Nurul Islam for not with the ability to strengthen the celebration’s minority base in current instances, in response to reviews.
(Edited by Anumeha Saxena)
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