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Maverick TC MP fires fresh salvo at Didi
Maverick Trinamool Congress MP and singer Kabir Suman fired yet another salvo at party chief Mamata Banerjee alleging step-motherly treatment.
“I request her to banish me from the party and I give word that I will immediately tender my resignation as a Member of Parliament after she turns me out of her outfit,” he said.
Suman, the Lok Sabha MP from Jadavpur, the constituency that had once elected Banerjee to the lower Parliament, alleged that ever since he had made charges of corruption against some senior Trinamool Congress leaders, the Chief Minister had not only stopped seeing him but funds too “stopped flowing for the development of my constituency.”
This is not the first time the MP has spoken out against his party chief.
The singer-cum-politician, who is also close to writer Mahasweta Devi, claimed in the initial two years that he had been among the four best performing MPs of the country who did maximum work in their constituencies. “But the State Government has been blocking my funds. I have not been able to implement a single project for the past several months. In such circumstances, how can an honest MP who is willing to work show his face to the electorate? So I request her (the Chief Minister) to throw me out of the party and as soon as she does so I promise to quit my post as an MP.”
Suman had actively backed Mamata Banerjee in her pro-farmer struggles in Nandigram and Singur and even supported her movement in Lalgarh. However, the two fell apart soon after the Trinamool Congress Government came to power and he started raising corruption charges against leaders like Kolkata Mayor Sobhan Chatterjee, who also looks after South 24 Parganas of which Jadavpur is a part.
The distance between Banerjee and Suman increased further after he wrote songs eulogising PCPA leader Chhatradhar Mahato. In that song he claimed that Mahato had been exploited by the Trinamool Congress.
“I have the full right to write my songs because I am a singer first and then I am a politician. I joined the Trinamool Congress a few days before I filed the nomination and that too after much cajoling by Ms Banerjee,” Suman said.
The former journalist complained how “recently, I was down with pulmonary disease and was admitted to a Government hospital. But neither did any one from the Trinamool Congress nor any one from the Health Department enquired after my health whereas the protocol demanded so. Rather, my political adversary Sujan Chakrabarty of CPI(M), who I defeated in Jadavpur, called on the assistant superintendent of the hospital asking whether I needed something.”
The rebel politician iterated: “I still respect the Chief Minister and it is her duty to fulfil her promises so that the respect is preserved not in my mind but in the minds of million other people in the State.”
On the “degeneration that the Trinamool Congress has suffered”, he said “the leaders are now enjoying power, the salutes from police officers and have forgotten all that they had promised to the people.”
If this trend continued, he said, the people would find no difference between the CPI(M) and the Trinamool Congress. “The so-called political change would then be a sham,” he maintained.
Maverick Trinamool Congress MP and singer Kabir Suman fired yet another salvo at party chief Mamata Banerjee alleging step-motherly treatment.
“I request her to banish me from the party and I give word that I will immediately tender my resignation as a Member of Parliament after she turns me out of her outfit,” he said.
Suman, the Lok Sabha MP from Jadavpur, the constituency that had once elected Banerjee to the lower Parliament, alleged that ever since he had made charges of corruption against some senior Trinamool Congress leaders, the Chief Minister had not only stopped seeing him but funds too “stopped flowing for the development of my constituency.”
This is not the first time the MP has spoken out against his party chief.
The singer-cum-politician, who is also close to writer Mahasweta Devi, claimed in the initial two years that he had been among the four best performing MPs of the country who did maximum work in their constituencies. “But the State Government has been blocking my funds. I have not been able to implement a single project for the past several months. In such circumstances, how can an honest MP who is willing to work show his face to the electorate? So I request her (the Chief Minister) to throw me out of the party and as soon as she does so I promise to quit my post as an MP.”
Suman had actively backed Mamata Banerjee in her pro-farmer struggles in Nandigram and Singur and even supported her movement in Lalgarh. However, the two fell apart soon after the Trinamool Congress Government came to power and he started raising corruption charges against leaders like Kolkata Mayor Sobhan Chatterjee, who also looks after South 24 Parganas of which Jadavpur is a part.
The distance between Banerjee and Suman increased further after he wrote songs eulogising PCPA leader Chhatradhar Mahato. In that song he claimed that Mahato had been exploited by the Trinamool Congress.
“I have the full right to write my songs because I am a singer first and then I am a politician. I joined the Trinamool Congress a few days before I filed the nomination and that too after much cajoling by Ms Banerjee,” Suman said.
The former journalist complained how “recently, I was down with pulmonary disease and was admitted to a Government hospital. But neither did any one from the Trinamool Congress nor any one from the Health Department enquired after my health whereas the protocol demanded so. Rather, my political adversary Sujan Chakrabarty of CPI(M), who I defeated in Jadavpur, called on the assistant superintendent of the hospital asking whether I needed something.”
The rebel politician iterated: “I still respect the Chief Minister and it is her duty to fulfil her promises so that the respect is preserved not in my mind but in the minds of million other people in the State.”
On the “degeneration that the Trinamool Congress has suffered”, he said “the leaders are now enjoying power, the salutes from police officers and have forgotten all that they had promised to the people.”
If this trend continued, he said, the people would find no difference between the CPI(M) and the Trinamool Congress. “The so-called political change would then be a sham,” he maintained.
