after the week He resigned from the Union Cabinet earlier than the reshuffle, BJP chief Babul Supriyo on Saturday introduced that he was leaving politics. Supriyo stated he had variations with some BJP leaders forward of the West Bengal Assembly elections. He stated the “intimate” between senior leaders was hurting the get together. He, nonetheless, clarified that he has no plans to hitch a rival political get together.
Earlier this month, Supriyo resigned as Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change within the Union Council of Ministers. Cabinet reshuffle in Narendra Modi’s second time period as Prime Minister.
Here’s a have a look at Supriyo’s political journey of seven years
political profession
Babul Supriyo, who can be a singer and actor, joined the BJP forward of the 2014 basic elections and was named by the get together as their Asansol (West Bengal) candidate. He received the seat defeating Dola Sen of the Trinamool Congress and have become the youngest of 21 ministers inducted within the first cupboard growth in Modi’s first time period as prime minister. To function the Union Minister of State for Urban Development; Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation until 12 July 2016, he was later appointed Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.
Actor-turned-politician Mithun Chakraborty and BJP chief Babul Supriyo throughout a rally in Tollygunge simply forward of Bengal elections. (Express Photo: Partha Paul)
In the 2019 Lok Sabha election, Supriyo retained his Asansol seat by defeating TMC’s Moon Moon Sen.
In the West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021, BJP fielded Supriyo as its candidate from Tollygunge constituency, the place he misplaced to TMC’s Arup Biswas by over 50,000 votes.
main controversy
Ahead of the Bengal Assembly elections earlier this yr, Supriyo reportedly acquired embroiled in controversies slapping a person contained in the get together workplace in Kolkata. The video of the incident, which went viral, exhibits the singer-turned-BJP chief purportedly slapping a person, who repeatedly poses in entrance of TV cameras and as a substitute of giving bites, begins a severe subject marketing campaign. requires. Supriyo later claimed that he “did not slap him but gestured to do so”.
In September 2019, Supriyo, the Union Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, was cornered by a piece of scholars at JU, the place he had gone to attend an ABVP occasion. (ANI picture)
Supriyo too A piece of scholars of Jadavpur University confronted huge opposition In 2019 when he had gone to the institute to attend an occasion organized by RSS pupil wing Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP). The protesting college students confirmed black flags to Supriyo and raised ‘return’ slogans.
The Union minister, nonetheless, refused to go away the campus and spoke verbally with the scholars, who have been from the Students’ Union of India (SFI) and the All India Students’ Union (AISA). The college students stated the BJP was not welcome on the campus whereas Supriyo stated that as a Union minister, he has a proper wherever.
“I was serious” Got crushed up, pulled my hair and I acquired punched and kicked. This is totally sudden from the scholars of Jadavpur University. If they’ve any downside with me coming right here, they need to have debated the matter. They should not have crushed me. They cannot cease me from going wherever. I didn’t count on this. This is the state of the training system in West Bengal,” Supriyo advised reporters.
In 2018, the then Union Minister courted an argument after him Threatened to ‘break a person’s leg’ During an occasion in Asansol, West Bengal. Ironically, the incident was caught on digicam when the minister was addressing an occasion for individuals with disabilities. In a video launched by information company ANI, the minister will be heard saying, “I may break one of your legs.” The BJP chief, who was invited to a social empowerment camp to distribute aids and assistive units to disabled folks, misplaced his cool after somebody within the crowd allegedly harassed him throughout his deal with.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
