Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee minimize “all ties” along with her youthful brother Swapan Banerjee Wednesday amid a high-voltage election marketing campaign within the state.
The determination got here after Swapan Banerjee, popularly often called Babun, introduced that he would battle the Lok Sabha polls as an Independent from the Howrah seat, a day after the Trinamool Congress (TMC) Sunday declared former Mohun Bagan footballer Prasun Banerjee its candidate for the seat.
“From today, I cut all ties with my brother; please don’t call him Mamata Banerjee’s brother,” the CM stated Wednesday at a press convention in Siliguri in North Bengal, taking everybody abruptly.
She added: “I haven’t liked his work for quite some time now. You can’t always say such things publicly, but I am saying it today. Those who grow too big also become greedy. I don’t consider him my family. All ties are cut.”
Babun final appeared alongside Mamata at a TMC rally on Brigade Parade Ground Sunday. Sporting a white kurta and denims, he had been inspecting stage preparations earlier than Mamata arrived.
The household drama began after the TMC introduced its candidates on the rally. A day later, Babun expressed his reservations concerning the TMC’s Howrah candidate and introduced his candidature from the seat.
Mamata’s announcement in Siliguri about reducing ties caught Babun, at present in New Delhi, unawares. As rumours about additional cracks between the siblings began floating, he made a sudden U-turn, saying he could be preventing the elections collectively together with his sister.
“I am not in the BJP. I am with Mamata Banerjee. Her words are like blessings for me. Didi is my blood. I will do what Didi tells me to. I will talk to her and do what I need to,” he informed ThePrint.
Before Mamata’s Siliguri press convention, he had informed ABP Ananda, “Didi is my God, I am not going to the BJP. I will fight independently. I know she will not like it, but I will try to convince her.”
He had additionally launched a video clarifying he was not becoming a member of the BJP. Introducing himself as Mamata’s brother, Babun had stated the concept that he was becoming a member of the BJP was “fake news” and that he would stay loyal to Mamata.
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‘Everyone is upset with Babun’
Babun is the youngest amongst Mamata’s six brothers. He is the president of the Bengal Olympic Association and Bengal Hockey Association, in command of the TMC sports activities wing, and a key member of the Mohun Bagan soccer membership.
During the TMC annual common assembly in February, Babun alleged that Prasun Banerjee had misbehaved with him. In 2022, Babun, who shared the Harish Chatterjee Street tackle with the CM, modified his voting centre to Howrah. Those related intently with the Mohun Bagan soccer membership stated Babun would attempt to showcase his affect utilizing his direct hyperlink with the chief minister, his sister, however refused to talk on the document.
Sources near the household informed ThePrint that none of Mamata’s brothers keep along with her, however all of them have houses close to hers.
Ajit Banerjee is the eldest brother and president of the Indian Football Association. He has two daughters; the elder, Mou, is a professor.
Another brother, Amit Banerjee, is married to Lata Banerjee, and their son Abhishek Banerjee is broadly seen as inheritor obvious within the TMC. Abhishek is married to Rujira Banerjee with whom he has a daughter, Azania, and a son, Aayansh. Abhishek’s dad and mom haven’t any celebration posts, however they’re administrators of the non-public firm, Leaps and Bounds.
Mamata’s brother Samir Banerjee, often called Kartik, is the pinnacle of TMC’s Jai Hind Bahini, primarily fashioned for social service. His spouse, Kajari Banerjee, is the most recent Banerjee to set foot in politics and have become Trinamool Congress councilor in Bhowanipore after successful the civic polls held in December 2021. Their son, Abesh Banerjee, is a physician, who married his batchmate just lately in Kurseong.
Mamata’s brother Subrata Banerjee, referred to as Ganesh, has stored himself away from politics, and brother Ashim Banerjee, referred to as Kali, handed away resulting from COVID-19 in May 2021. His son, Akash Banerjee, is a member of the TMC youth wing.
On Wednesday, a upset Mamata Banerjee recalled how she raised her siblings from a younger age. “It’s not about this election. He (Babun) has harassed me during every election but now has forgotten his childhood. I should not say this, but I was telling Abhishek when my father passed away, I started working at a milk depot and earned Rs 45, which I used to raise my siblings. Maybe because I started fighting in politics (field), I couldn’t raise him (Babun),” Mamata stated in Siliguri.
Mamata’s life modified after her father’s dying, a narrative she usually shares on public platforms. Her father, Promileswar Banerjee, died when she was younger. Mamata wrote in her autobiography, “We didn’t face hardships when my father was alive; he was a government contractor. We had money; my father owned 12 bighas of land in his ancestral village; we had our house and even lorries.”
At 41, Mamata’s father was recognized with a gastric ulcer. Mamata recalled in her guide that the federal government owed her father cash for contractual work, and he tried to get better his dues to get correct therapy. “He left us after lying at PG hospital (SSKM Hospital, Kolkata) more or less without any treatment,” she wrote.
Closest to her late mom, Gayatri Devi, Mamata took cost of the household after her father’s dying and has been the glue since. She suggested her mom to unload the land and provides the proceeds to her elder brother to begin a enterprise. Now, her siblings are all well-settled and linked with the TMC in a method or one other.
“TMC is my family, but if you say blood tie, we are a family of 32, and everyone is upset with Babun,” Mamata stated in Siliguri.
(Edited by Madhurita Goswami)
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