Although the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost the West Bengal Assembly elections in March Mamata Banerjee But securing 77 seats by the saffron brigade did not go unnoticed in front of the central leadership as prime minister Narendra Modi Shantanu Thakur, Nisith Pramanik, Dr. Subhash Sarkar and John Barla were awarded ministerial posts on Wednesday.
A new Ministry of Cooperation has been created to “strengthen the cooperative movement in the country”. The cabinet reshuffle is very important for the BJP – with an eye on the assembly elections in five states in 2022 and the national election in 2024. National level fort
Shantanu Thakur – The Matua Factor
Shantanu Thakur is an influential Matua ‘Dharma Guru’ and BJP Lok Sabha MP from Bongaon seat since 2019. He is actively involved in spreading the ideas and idealism of Matua culture all over India since last 20 years as leader of All India Matua. Federation.
Thakur, 38, is the son of former Bengal minister Manjul Krishna Thakur (who was in TMC). He did an Advanced Diploma in Hospitality Management from Victoria University in Sydney, Australia.
Since September 13, 2019, he has been a member of the Standing Committee on Commerce, and the Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Rural Development and Panchayati Raj.
Shantanu greatly helped the BJP in building a strong platform in the Matua-dominated areas of Bengal. It was his hard work that helped the BJP win a majority of the Matua-dominated seats in the last Lok Sabha elections in 2019 and the assembly elections in 2021.
For decades, political parties like Congress, CPI(M) and TMC looked to Matua for their electoral gains until Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, who actively worked on the pending citizenship issue.
Knowing the resentment among the people on the issue of citizenship, Shantanu actively worked on citizenship issues to persuade Matua in favor of BJP. In the 2019 Lok Sabha, he defeated TMC heavyweight candidate Mamta Thakur from Bongaon in North 24-Parganas.
Ahead of the state elections – there was speculation that he might quit the BJP over his differences with central party leaders over the delay in implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA).
He even questioned Home Minister Amit Shah that the Center should clarify its stand on the implementation of CAA in West Bengal.
Despite his displeasure over the delay in the implementation of the CAA, Thakur never crossed party lines and worked hard to bag 11 of the 14 Matua-dominated seats in the Bongaon and Ranaghat Lok Sabha constituencies.
His differences with the BJP were resolved when he accompanied PM Modi to Bangladesh during his visit to Orkandi (on March 27), where Sri Sri Harichand Thakur ji (Matua visionary) spread his message on humanity.
In the Bangaon Lok Sabha seats (covering parts of Nadia and North 24-Parganas districts), Shantanu, along with other influential Matua leaders including his brother Subrata Thakur, won six, including Kalyani (SC), Haringhata (SC), Baghda (SC). Helped BJP to secure seats. ), Bangaon North (SC), Bangaon South (SC) and Gaighata (SC).
Similarly, in Ranaghat Lok Sabha seats — Shantanu helped BJP secure five assembly seats out of seven including Nabadwip, Santipur, Krishnaganj (SC), Ranaghat Uttar Purba (SC) and Ranaghat Dakshin (SC). Two seats Chakdaha and Ranaghat Uttar Paschim went to TMC.
In short, Shantanu and his team helped the BJP win 11 of the 14 assembly seats dominated by the Matua community. According to political experts, this is the reason why he was rewarded by Prime Minister Narendra Modi today.
Nisith Pramanik – Rajbanshi Factor in North Bengal
Nisith Pramanik, 35, is also an influential Rajbanshi leader in North Bengal, where the BJP has grown rapidly since the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. Even in the 2021 assembly elections, Nisith and John Barla and their team helped the BJP get 30 out of 54 seats in North Bengal.
The reason the trio of Shantanu Thakur, Nisith Pramanik and John Barla were inducted into Modi’s new cabinet today is that they together helped the BJP bag 41 seats (about 53.25%) out of the total 77 seats won by the party in the assembly elections. of.
Other tribal communities like Rajbanshi and Kamtapuri have long been demanding identity-based representation from the state and the inclusion of Nisith and Barla can be seen as BJP’s strategy to retain its ground in North Bengal against Mamata Banerjee. is.
A political expert said, “The BJP wanted to ensure that it does not lose to the TMC in North Bengal and hence Nisith and Barla were inducted into the party.”
Nisith started his political journey as a youth leader of TMC. However, due to differences with CM Banerjee, he fielded around 300 candidates as independents against TMC candidates and many of them managed to win the panchayat elections in 2018.
He joined the BJP in New Delhi on February 28, 2019, fielded for the Cooch Behar Lok Sabha constituency, which was won by the TMC in the 2016 by-election.
Nisith attracted the attention of BJP central leaders after he defeated strong TMC candidate Paresh Chandra Adhikari from Cooch Behar by a margin of nearly 54,000 votes in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
In the 2021 assembly elections, BJP has fielded Nisith (Lok Sabha MP) from Dinhata assembly constituency against two-time MLA Udayan Guha of Trinamool Congress. Though the gap was around 60 seats, Nisith managed to win the seat from Udyan.
Nisith was born on 17 January 1986 in Dinhata. He did Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA). There are 11 cases pending against him.
John Barla: Capturing the tribal spirit of North Bengal
John Barla, a follower of the great freedom fighter Birsa Munda, was elected to the Lok Sabha from Alipurduar in West Bengal in the 2019 general election.
He started his political career by joining the Akhil Bharatiya Adivasi Vikas Parishad (ABVP) in 2007.
He also worked as an active worker of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) but joined BJP in 2014. He contested the 2016 assembly election from Nagarkata but lost.
In 2018, ahead of the panchayat elections, he was arrested for violating law and order in the area. Later, he was released and in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, BJP fielded him from Alipurduar seat and he won by a margin of 2,43,000.
Recently, John Barla came into controversy when he demanded a separate state for North Bengal citing lack of development in the region.
Barla’s demand had a sharp political backlash and TMC leaders lodged some complaints against him with the police.
Subhash Sarkar
Dr Subhash Sarkar was born on 25 August 1953 and he is a doctor by profession. He was elected to the Lok Sabha from Bankura, West Bengal as a member of the BJP in the 2019 general election.
resigners
With the induction of Shantanu Thakur, Nitish Pramanik and John Barla in the new cabinet- Babul Supriyo (Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change) and Debashree Choudhary were dropped from PM Modi’s cabinet.
Debashree Choudhary
When Debashree Choudhary was made a minister of state in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet in 2019 – it came as a surprise to many (given the fact that she was not a prominent leader in state politics).
However, many in the state who have been with the BJP for decades can only describe the contribution of Debashree and her family as grassroots leaders with a strong RSS footprint, which helped the party increase its vote share in the border areas of West Bengal. helped in
She was rewarded for her hard work and made general secretary of the party’s Bengal unit and later she was made MoS in the ministry of women and child development in PM Modi’s cabinet in 2019.
His father, Devi Das Choudhary, was a high school teacher and president of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh (BJS) from 1967 to 1980 in Balurghat in the undivided Dinajpur district (later it was bifurcated into Dakshin and North Dinajpur). The BJS was the political wing of the RSS.
During his tenure as President, Emergency was declared in India in 1975 and several BJS leaders were arrested. Though it was difficult for BJS leaders to work during Congress and Left rule in Bengal, Debashree and her family still served the party.
Born on January 31, 1971, Debashree recounts the struggles the family faced. “There was struggle and crisis but we all managed to overcome it because of my mother Ratna. She was a force behind all of us who inspired us to move forward. I have one sister and two brothers and the common link between us is service to the nation. We are all either associated with the BJP or the Sangh,” she had said.
She was an active member of ABVP in Burdwan University and in 2001, she joined the state BJP. Since then she has gone ahead with her father’s stick (who died in 2010) to serve the BJP.
Debashree did her Masters from Burdwan University and worked for a private company in Kolkata from 1995 to 1996. She contested the 2014 Lok Sabha elections from the Bardhaman-Durgapur seat of West Bengal but lost to a TMC candidate. In the 2019 Lok Sabha, he won Raiganj seat by defeating CPI(M) MP Mohammad Salim by 3,28,552 votes and TMC’s Kanailal Agarwal by 60,593 votes.
Babul Supriyo
Playback singer Babul Supriyo’s political journey began in 2014 when he defeated Dola Sen of TMC from Asansol Lok Sabha constituency.
On 9 November 2014, he became the Union Minister of State, Ministry of Urban Development and Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation.
In July 2016, his portfolio was changed to Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJP fielded her once again and she was successful in defeating actress-turned-politician Moon Moon Sen by 1.97 lakh votes. Impressed by his performance, the party made him Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change in May 2019.
However, his fortunes turned bad after the BJP fielded him from Tollygunge in the 2021 assembly elections and he lost against Arup Biswas of TMC.
He was born on 15 December 1970 at Uttarpara in Hooghly district. He did his schooling from Don Bosco School and later obtained his B.Com degree from Serampore College.
Babul Supriyo used to work in Standard Chartered Bank but later decided to take up singing as a full time career. In 1992, he moved to Mumbai to pursue a career in Bollywood and since then he has not looked back.
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