Four days after joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in presence of Union dwelling minister Amit Shah, former Bengal minister Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday was branded a “traitor” and his household was focused on the first Trinamool Congress (TMC) roadshow and rally at Kanthi, his hometown in Bengal’s East Midnapore district, because the defection.

Before the rally, there was a conflict between the BJP and the TMC employees in the district’s Ramnagar space. The rally was organised by Akhil Giri, TMC lawmaker from Ramnagar and a recognized detractor of Adhikari.

Adhikari’s followers introduced that he’ll maintain a counter-rally at Kanthi on Thursday. Adhikari prevented the media.

On Tuesday, Adhikari addressed his first rally as a BJP chief alongside occasion’s state president Dilip Ghosh in Burdwan district. Accusing the TMC of being concerned in smuggling of cows, coal and sand, he stated, “If the TMC returns to power it will start an illegal kidney trade as well.”

The ruling occasion hit again on Wednesday on Adhikari’s personal turf.

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“Suvendu is no strongman in Bengal politics. He lost the first assembly and Lok Sabha polls. He won his first assembly election from Kanthi South in 2006 but only after his father, the incumbent, vacated the seat. He was given two important portfolios in the cabinet. What more did he want? He is a traitor. Kanthi is not the kingdom of any family,” TMC Lok Sabha member Saugata Roy stated on the rally.

Roy even called Adhikari Mir Zafar, the overall who betrayed Shiraj-ud-Daulah, Bengal’s final unbiased nawab who was defeated by the East India Company in the Battle of Plassey in 1757. The battle marked the launch of British rule in India.

On December 19, Adhikari and 6 different TMC legislators, a TMC Lok Sabha member, three MLAs from the Left and Congress and at the least 20 different district-degree leaders of the ruling occasion joined the BJP at Shah’s rally in Midnapore city. This marked the most important defection of elected TMC leaders in the run-as much as the meeting polls due in about 5 months.

For months, the dissident leaders had voiced their grievance in opposition to Abhishek Banerjee, nephew of chief minister Mamata Banerjee, and election strategist Prashant Kishor, who was roped in by the occasion final 12 months after the BJP gained 18 of the state’s 42 Lok Sabha seats.

“A few days ago, I organised a meeting where Abhishek and Kishor were present. Suvendu told Abhishek in front of me that he had nothing to say against Abhishek. After joining the BJP, Suvendu called him an extortionist. Who does he think he is?” Roy instructed the gang.

Though Suvendu Adhikari is the one member of his household to hitch the BJP, his father and two brothers had been conspicuous by their absence on the rally. TMC employees who walked previous their dwelling in the center of Kanthi city shouted slogans and called them traitors.

Suvendu Adhikari represented East Midnapore’s Nandigram seat the place a protracted land motion helped Mamata Banerjee oust the Left Front authorities in 2011. His resignation from the state meeting was accepted by the speaker on Monday.

Adhikari’s father, Sisir Adhikari, is the eldest among the many TMC’s Lok Sabha members and has been Mamata Banerjee’s shut affiliate because the occasion’s delivery in 1998. Sisir Adhikari and his elder son, Dibyendu, characterize two Lok Sabha constituencies in East Midnapore. The youngest son of the household heads the civic physique in Kanthi city.

Scoffing at Wednesday’s rally, the state BJP’s chief spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya stated, “How many people in that crowd were from Kanthi? The crowd was ferried from Nandigram.”

Incidentally, no senior BJP chief is scheduled to attend Adhikari’s rally on Thursday.