TRINAMUL CONGRESS

Trinamul Congress gains strength in Tufanganj

The lone independent councillor of the Tufanganj Municipality Mr Biswajit Dey joined the Trinamul Congress today. By his joining the Trinamul Congress got its first councillor in the CPI-M run civic body.

There are 14 wards in the municipality. The CPI-M has 12 councillors and the Forward Bloc has one member.

District Trinamul Congress president Mr Rabindra Nath Ghosh said the elected councillor of Ward Number 11 of Tufanganj Municipality Mr Biswajit Dey had submitted an appeal to join the Trinamul Congress. Accordingly he has been included in the party today. On the occasion, a mass gathering was held at Tufanganj today.

Mr Ghosh claimed that not only Mr Dey but also 850 CPI-M activists from different areas of Tufanganj joined the Trinamul Congress today. "From now on it may be easier for us to organise our movement against the Leftists in Tufanganj", He hoped. In the next municipal election the Trinamul Congress may be able to pull down the CPI-M from the power of Tufanganj Municipality as it did in the two Panchayat Samitis of Tufanganj sub-division in the last three-tier panchayat elections, he added.

It may be mentioned here that till the last three-tier Panchayat elections Tufanganj was known as the red citadel of the CPI-M. In the panchayat elections the Trinamul Congress pulled down the CPI-M and captured power of the two Panchayat Samitis. They also got a number of seats in different Gram Panchayats.