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After the BJP trying to make their presence stronger in the well-known sporting clubs they have now decided to bolster their contacts amongst the state government employees’ association.
Over the last 20 days, around 50 people from the TMC-backed of the state government employees federation joined the BJP-backed state government employees federation.
A senior BJP leader, on condition of anonymity, said: “Almost 50 people have joined the BJP-backed state government federation in the last 20 days, and we are getting requests from another 70. We are screening many people before taking them in our federation.”
On Friday, the State Administrative Tribunal (SAT) has instructed the West Bengal government to give the pending dearness allowance (DA) to the West Bengal government employees at par with the Central government employees. The West Bengal State Government Employees Federation had approached SAT in 2017 . The order mentions that the state government had to pay the pending DA within a year. The SAT also instructed that the pending arrears can be cleared by giving the amount or adjusting with the employees PF.
Sanket Chakraborty, the general secretary of West Bengal steering committee and member of West Bengal Karmachari Federation, said: ”As the state government employees are debarred from getting their basic rights, a section of employees have already enrolled their names in the BJP backed state government employees federation. A majority of the employees are desperate to enrol their names in BJP, but they could not enrol themselves to BJP now as they are still working under West Bengal government fearing that they might be transferred to other places. We welcome the decision of the SAT and we feel that the state government should immediately intervene and resolve the issue. It was a much-needed relief to the state government employees.”
According to Chakraborty, the employees’ federation will go till the Supreme Court, if the state government appeals to a higher court . We have received reports that the state government employees have been threatened by members of the TMC backed state employees federation that if they join the BJP, they would be transferred to different places. As a result, they have not been able to join in huge numbers in the BJP-backed employees’ federation.
BJP gained majority in the election of Bar Association of Calcutta High Court and tried to dominate in the managerial posts in famous Durga Puja Committees in Bengal
After the BJP’s control over the lawyers’ body and trying to build public contacts during Durga Puja, the saffron party is now eyeing to capture the coveted position in the Puja committees of Bengal to increase their contacts with the people. The BJP top leadership has confirmed that they already got calls from reputed Durga puja committee members that they want to post some of the BJP leaders as organising members in the puja committees in Bengal.
Here is a tweet from Dilip Ghosh where he mentioned BJP’s control over Calcutta High Court Bar Association of Bengal.
Dilip Ghosh, state BJP president, said; “We have already received proposals from at least 25 top puja committees who have requested us to sent the names of some of the BJP leaders who can be posted in the managerial post in the puja committees. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has already instructed us to increase contacts with the common people during the Pujas and as we have already received proposals from the top puja committees we will short list the people who can be put in the managerial post in the Durga puja committees in Bengal.
Sources in the state BJP said that at least 80 puja committees have already approached them and urged them to hold the key organisational positions in the Durga Puja committees. The BJP leadership is now screening all the requests.
It may be mentioned that TMC leaders like Subrata Mukherjee, Arup Biswas , Partha Chatterjee, Firhad Hakim are a part of the top management of some of the reputed Durga Puja committees in Bengal . Ekdalia Evergreen, Surechi Sangha club and Naktala Udyan Sangha club and Chetla Agrani Sangha are some of the well known puja committees in Bengal where top TMC leaders are attached in the organisational post.