New Delhi: West Bengal Bengal Unit hopes that at least two party lawmakers from the country to be appointed in the Cabinet Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in the coming reshuffle which is expected to be held on Wednesday.
After installing the performance of the best poll in the state, with 77 assembly seats for the first time, coming from only three seats, the BJP state unit expects to be rewarded with central levels, to survive, the new power obtained on the ground, with eyes on 2024 Lok Sabha polls.
The BJP performance in Bengal came as a follow-up to its performance in the 2019 parliamentary election when a big victory bagged 18 out of 42 seats in the state.
After BJP lost the country’s election to the Trinamool Mamata Banerjee Congress in May, the internal friction in the party had lined up especially between those who had crossed from TMC and other parties before the polls but lost their election and joined Que to return to the TMC decision in the state , Therefore, to maintain newly obtained strengths that have been obtained in the new meadow, the leadership of the central party is expected to be able to accommodate at least two new inductees to the union cabinet, even if it is the Minister of State.
The names of MP Bongaon Santanu Thakur and Cooch Behar MP Nishith Pramanik are among those who do the round as a possibility of a new face in the Cabinet Mod.
Thakur is included in the Matua Community, which has been successfully seen by BJP since the last selection of Sabha Lok.
Thakur actually accompanied PM Modi to Bangladesh during his last visit to Dhaka in the midst of Bengal’s poll, which also included a tour of the main temple of the matuas.
The two lawmakers recently met with PM and Interior Minister Amit Shah along with Suvendu Adhikari and other party lawmakers from the country and both of them in Delhi.
Pramanik, also imports from TMC like Thakur represent the North Bengal area where BJP has obtained a lot of land and also belongs to the Rajbonshi community, which has demanded identity-based representation from the country.
If pramanik is appointed, basically to ensure that BJP does not lose the land to TMC, because the ruling party in Bengal also tries to regain a lost area.
The Modi Cabinet currently has two state ministers from the State – Lok Sabha Mps Babul Supriyo and Debasri Chowdhury.