TMC: Show-cause notice to party MP for controversial Facebook post
The TMC today issued a show-cause notice to party MP Anupam Hazra for his controversial Facebook post comparing Mahatma Gandhi with Subhash Chandra Bose. Hazra in a Facebook post said he has a ''problem in accepting Mahatma Gandhi as the Father of the Nation'' TMC Birbhum district president Anubrata Mandal has criticised Hazra for his comments. Here's more.
TMC Secretary General Partha Chatterje's statement
''We have repeatedly cautioned him (Hazra) and asked him not to make any sort of comment which may dent the image of the party," TMC Secretary General Partha Chatterjee said. "But he has been constantly making statements which are harmful for the party.'' Chatterjee told reporters, "He has been show caused and has been asked to give us a reply within next week."
Notably, this is not his first controversy
Hazra, a first-time TMC MP from Bolpur constituency in Birbhum district who has courted controversies in the past too, had in another Facebook post last night expressed his displeasure over being branded as ''anti-party''.
