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Panja holds closed-door meeting with Pranab
Kolkata, Jun 21: A closed-door meeting between suspended Trinamool Congress MP Ajit Panja and WBPCC president Pranab Mukherjee has given a new twist to speculations about his returning to the Congress.
Kolkata, Jun 21: A closed-door meeting between suspended Trinamool Congress MP Ajit Panja and WBPCC president Pranab Mukherjee has given a new twist to speculations about his returning to the Congress.
"Before leaving for midnapore from Kolkata for campaigning for the party for the June 22 elections to the municipality there, Mukherjee had a talk with Panja over telephone. They later met in a circuit house at Midnapore on Thursday and discussed the political situation," a state Congress source said here today.
"The meeting between the two leaders lasted for half an hour," the source said, adding that Mukherjee on his return for a state Congress executive body meeting on June 28, would talk to Panja again.
Panja was also then at Midnapur to campaign for four candidates of Muktamanch, an organisation floated by him to rally his supporters behind him after his suspension from the Trinamool Congress for alleged anti-party activities.
While Mukherjee is now in Delhi, Panja was not immediately available for comments.
Panja, who considered congress emerging as the second largest party in the left-ruled West Bengal owing to its "transparency" and "accountability to the people," had earlier said that he has been 'impressed' by the gradual show of progress of the party to win the hearts of the people.
Bureau Report
"Before leaving for midnapore from Kolkata for campaigning for the party for the June 22 elections to the municipality there, Mukherjee had a talk with Panja over telephone. They later met in a circuit house at Midnapore on Thursday and discussed the political situation," a state Congress source said here today.
"The meeting between the two leaders lasted for half an hour," the source said, adding that Mukherjee on his return for a state Congress executive body meeting on June 28, would talk to Panja again.
Panja was also then at Midnapur to campaign for four candidates of Muktamanch, an organisation floated by him to rally his supporters behind him after his suspension from the Trinamool Congress for alleged anti-party activities.
While Mukherjee is now in Delhi, Panja was not immediately available for comments.
Panja, who considered congress emerging as the second largest party in the left-ruled West Bengal owing to its "transparency" and "accountability to the people," had earlier said that he has been 'impressed' by the gradual show of progress of the party to win the hearts of the people.
Bureau Report