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Kolkata: Matua leader from West Bengal Shantanu Thakur has clinched a minister of state (MoS) post for the second consecutive term in the Narendra Modi government...
He is the only junior minister from Bengal in the previous Modi cabinet who won from his seat in a hotly contested election between the Trinamool Congress (TMC) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the eastern state..
But Thakurs journey was a bumpy one with him quitting the partys WhatsApp groups, skipping Bengal BJP camps and even holding a meeting with a section of disgruntled BJP leaders at the Kolkata Port Trust guest house just a few kilometers away from then BJP state headquarters before he was pacified with a portfolio...
Shantanu Thakur retained the Bongaon parliamentary seat after defeating Biswajit Das, who switched from TMC to BJP, won the 2021 Bengal elections and went back to the TMC after polls..
In 2016, when Manjul Thakur was denied a TMC ticket to fight the state polls, his elder son Shantanu eventually secured a BJP ticket from the Bongaon Lok Sabha seat in 2019..
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