Wilson to meet Trinamul seniors

TT, June 22: Kalchini MLA Wilson Champramary today said he would meet state Trinamul leaders in Calcutta tomorrow, days after the circulation of a video clip showing him abusing state officials.

Champramary, who reached Calcutta today, would not clarify why he was there.

"I have reached Calcutta today. I will meet Trinamul leaders tomorrow to speak on certain issues," the MLA told The Telegraph over phone.

Asked whether he would be meeting Trinamul general secretary Subrata Bakshi and Trinamul's secretary-general Partha Chatterjee, Champramary said: "I will speak to both of them and some other Trinamul leaders. I am not ready to speak any further on the issue."

During a phone conversation on June 11, made in front of a gathering in Jaigaon, Champramary had used abusive words while describing the district magistrate and threatened to burn the SDO and BDO's offices.

The spark for the exchange was the demolition of an illegal wall erected by some encroachers on government land.

Champramary was angry that the wall had been demolished without informing him.

After the video clip leaked on different online platforms, Sourav Chakraborty, the Alipurduar district Trinamul president, said that the party "does not endorse such remarks".

Neither Bakshi nor Chatterjee could be contacted despite several attempts.

Today, Dasrath Tirkey and Bijoy Krishna Burman, the Trinamul MPs of Alipurduar and Jalpaiguri, respectively, also criticised the MLA's comments.

"If the MLA has made such indecent comments, he has not done the correct thing. Such comments are undesirable. He should have refrained from making such remarks," Tirkey, the Alipurduar MP, said.

Champramary, who had contested as an Independent candidate at the 2011 Assembly polls, had joined Trinamul in 2013.

He has been inducted as an associate member of Trinamul. He was also made the chairman of Jaigaon Development Authority and the parliamentary secretary of tribal welfare.

Chakraborty said: "He (Champramary) will meet the state leaders tomorrow where certain issues likely to be discussed."