From being a tribal leader to a Union minister, BJP MP John Barla has come a long way. Barla, 45, had recently demanded separate statehood or Union Territory status for north Bengal. Even as Barla was being sworn in, Bengal parliamentary affairs minister Partha Chatterjee said, “BJP is a curious party. They make a person who wants to divide West …
Tribal leader John Barla was inducted into the Prime Minister Narendra Modi cabinet on Wednesday as Minister of State for Minority Affairs, strengthening the new team’s idea of ‘Sabka Vikas’. According to an article in Hindustan Times, he briefly flirted with the idea of being a part of ‘the Gorkha Janmukti Morcha and the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha before dumping them …
BJP MP John Barla Wednesday again raked up a controversial demand seeking a separate union territory comprising North Bengal districts, despite his party cautioning against such statements. Reacting to Barla's repeated outbursts demanding that North Bengal be declared a separate union territory, BJP state president Dilip Ghosh said "everyone has to go by the party line," while at the same …
Days after BJP MP John Barla sought a separate union territory comprising north Bengal districts, his party colleague Saumitra Khan on Monday raised a similar demand for the Junglemahal region of the state and its neighbourhood areas. Distancing himself from Khan’s views, BJP spokesperson Shamik Bhattacharya said the party doesn’t support any demand for Bengal’s bifurcation. He, nonetheless, added that …
Days after Gorkha Janmukti Morcha leader Bimal Gurung broke his ties with the Bharatiya Janata Party and extended his support to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in the upcoming 2021 West Bengal Assembly Polls, several BJP leaders from the state along with national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya reached New Delhi and held a meeting with Union home minister Amit Shah on …