Overview
- Samik Bhattacharya told party workers on Monday to stop presenting Kamarhati as a BJP-run body and asked state general secretary Amitabh Chakraborty to submit a detailed report by the end of the day.
- The controversy follows a string of councillor resignations that preceded the selection of Sushanta Chatterjee as Kamarhati chairman, a choice local reports say had backing from Trinamool councillors.
- Bhattacharya publicly disowned emotional actions by some BJP workers who locked municipal offices and said those moves do not reflect the party’s official position.
- He said the state government, not the BJP, has the power to appoint administrators when elected municipal boards lose their majority and urged workers to refrain from taking administrative steps.
- The party will decide on disciplinary or political measures after reviewing the report, a process that could reshape control at the municipal level and affect local delivery of civic services.