A'duar BJP workers question UT demand, BJP never wants to break West Bengal- Pramanik

BJP state vice-president Dipen Pramanik

SNS, ALIPURDUAR, 1 July 2021 : Workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Alipurduar district today sought explanations from their leaders on the demand being made for a separate North Bengal state or a Union Territory.

The BJP held a workers' meeting near the Alipurduar Parade Grounds in Alipurduar town today, BJP state vice-president Dipen Pramanik, state Saha Sangathan Mantri Kishore Barman, along with district convenor of the party Bhusan Modak, attended the "Karyakarini meeting."

"Some Mandal leaders wanted to know the party's stand on the separate state or Union Territory for North Bengal," the source added.

Notably. Alipurduar MP John Barla and some other elected representatives of the BJP have demanded a separate North Bengal state or a Union Territory. However, top BJP state leaders have said that the party has no such intention of dividing Bengal and creating a separate state. Despite the top party leaders' stand, Mr Barla has not stopped raising the demand.

"How is it possible for the party to raise the demand for a separate state or Union Territory when the top BJP leadership has clearly stated that the party does not want such division of Bengal?" a source quoted a mandal leader asking in the meeting today.

Sources added that Mr Pramanik told the workers that North Bengal was a deprived area and that the people in the region.

'That is why people are raising the demand for a separate state or UT. Our elected members just highlighted the public demand and nothing else. BJP never wants to break West Bengal," Mr Pramanik told the workers.