West Bengal: Adhir Ranjan removed as Bengal Congress Party president, Subhankar Sarkar to take over as state president

The Congress on Saturday issued a notification saying that Subhankar Sarkar will replace former Lok Sabha MP Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary as the West Bengal unit president. An official notification issued by senior Congress leader KC Venugopal said: “Congress President has appointed Subhankar Sarkar as the president of West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee with immediate effect.

An official notification issued by Congress general secretary KC Venugopal said, “Congress president has appointed Subhankar Sarkar as president of West Bengal Congress committee with immediate effect. He has been relieved of his duties as secretary of AICC.” It said, “The party appreciates the contribution of outgoing PCC president Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary.”

Recently, Adil Ranjan Chowdhury said in an interview with a news agency that from the day when Mallikarjun Haq assumed office as the party president, all other posts of the party in the country have become temporary as per the party constitution. Even my post has become temporary.

Adil Ranjan said that when the Lok Sabha elections were going on, Mallikarjun Haq had said on TV that if necessary, I would be excluded and I had expressed my opinion in front of party leaders during the elections, but Haq did not accept it. I felt sad about such remarks. You must have seen that the election results in West Bengal were also not good for the Congress. He said that although I was the interim party president, after the state failure, I was responsible for the failure. After that, I told Haqji that if you can, you can give my place to someone else.

Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary joined the Congress party in 1991. In 1999, he won the Lok Sabha election for the first time. In the previous government, he was also the Lok Sabha Congress leader. But this time, in the Lok Sabha election, Adhir Ranjan had to lose miserably in Baharampur, the stronghold of Yusuf Pathan. TMC had given the ticket to former cricketer Yusuf Pathan. Let us tell you that this time in the Lok Sabha election, the relationship between Adhir Ranjan and Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was very tense. There were also reports of Adhir Ranjan clashing with the top leadership.