KOLKATA: Suvendu Adhikari’s Nandigram rally on November 10 is not going to be a Purba Midnapore affair only. Messages have been sent to “Dadar Anugami” across districts to come down for the mega show on Tuesday.
Posters for ‘Tekhali cholo’ (Nandigram) rally describe Suvendu as “chief patron of Bhumi Uchhed Pratirodh Committee” that could bring about a rainbow coalition of forces against the Left Front government during the Nandigram land stir. Not one names him as Trinamool general secretary.
Organizers held block meetings at Nandigram and Khejuri on Saturday in which local TMC MLAs were not involved. “The rally on November 10 will be a showdown without party banners,” said an organizer.
The rebel leader has been taking his angst mainly to Trinamool old-timers who feel left out in the current dispensation. It continued three days after Suvendu’s father and Trinamool district chairman Sisir Adhikari rolled out a “consensus” party panel for Purba Midnapore to keep all factions happy.
Suvendu had been to Bharat Sevashram Sangha’s Beldanga ashram in Murshidabad on Friday and will attend a condolence meeting in memory of Murshidabad Zilla Parishad karmadhyaksha Mafijuddin Mandal in Margram village on Sunday when TMC is holding a condolence meet at Khargram the same day. Murshidabad Zilla Parishad sabhapati Mosharaf Hossain Mandal and saha-sabhapati Baidyanath Das are likely to attend the Margram programme. The TMC karmadhyaksha died of Corona.
‘Amra Dadar Anugami’ posters have also come up at Behrampore town from where Congress leader Adhir Chowdhury got a huge lead in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
Suvendu has consented to inaugurate the Kali Puja organized by Jharkhand (Naren) Party leader Chunibala Hansda at Magura village in Jhargram on November 14. Chunibala and Adivasi heroine Birbaha Hansda are among the chief organisers of the 36-year-old puja.
There was speculation about Birbaha Hansda getting a Trinamool ticket for the Jhargram Lok Sabha seat in 2019. But Birbaha Soren got the ticket and Hansda fought the polls as Jharkhand (Naren) Party candidate.
(Inputs from Suman Mandal, Sujoy Khanra, Sukumar Mahato, Subhro Maitra and Pinak Priya Bhattacharya