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Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Resigned From The President WBCC Post. Targets Kharge

  • By Thetripurapost Desk, Guwahati
  • Jul 30, 2024
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Congress' West Bengal in-charge Ghulam Ahmed Mir on Tuesday said Adhir Ranjan Chowdhary had resigned from the post of state Congress Committee president after the Lok Sabha elections and the process to appoint a new state unit chief is underway.

Meanwhile Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has targeted Mallikarjun Kharge. While talking to news agency ANI, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said that from the day Mallikarju n Kharge became the party president, according to the party constitution, all other posts in the party in the country have become temporary. Even my post has become temporary. 

Adhir Ranjan said that when the Lok Sabha elections were going on, Mallikarjun Kharge had said on television that if necessary, I would be kept out. While I had expressed my opinion in front of the party leaders during the elections. But I was saddened by such a statement by Kharge. You must have seen that the election result in West Bengal was also not good for the Congress. 

He said that even though I was the temporary party president, but after the defeat in the state, it was my responsibility to hold myself accountable for this defeat. After which I told Kharge ji that if possible, you can give my place to someone else.

Adhir Ranjan further said that in the meantime AICC informed me to call a meeting of Congress leaders of West Bengal. It was said that two important proposals have to be passed. This meeting was called under my chairmanship. Adhir Ranjan said that till the time of the meeting I was the president of West Bengal Congress but during the meeting Ghulam Ali Mir addressed me as the former president of the state. Then I came to know that I am no longer the president of the state.

Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary had joined the Congress party in 1991. He won the Lok Sabha election for the first time in 1999. He was also the leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha in the previous government. But in this Lok Sabha election, Adhir Ranjan had to face defeat against Yusuf Pathan in his stronghold, Baharampur. TMC had given ticket to former cricketer Yusuf Pathan. 

Let us tell you that this time in the Lok Sabha elections, there was a lot of bitterness between Adhir Ranjan and Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee. There were also reports of Adhir Ranjan's confrontation with the top leadership