Former Tripura PCC president and five-time MLA Birajit Sinha has been skipping the campaign for party candidate Asish Kumar Saha in West Tripura Lok Sabha constituency.
Mr. Sinha is maintaining a visible distance from Mr. Saha, who is the incumbent PCC president as well as the party’s candidate. Mr. Sinha is also keeping away from former Health Minister Sudip Roy Barman since his removal as PCC president last year. His aides blamed the Saha-Barman duo for his drop and several of his loyal leaders from key party positions.
Mr. Sinha has been maintaining silence and not displaying his ire publicly, but he is allegedly allowing his close aides to depart Congress and join the Bharatiya Janata Party. In the past one month, several leaders in Congress joined the saffron party.
