Infighting within Trinamul in Cooch Behar took a new turn with party leaders close to district party chief Partha Pratim Roy slamming party colleagues critical of Roy and demanding stringent steps against the critics.

Recently, leaders like former civic chief Bhusan Singh, district general secretary Khokon Mian, party leader from Cooch Behar-II block Parimal Burman have fumed against Roy’s “arbitrary” decisions in naming office-bearers, “bias” and “incompetence”.

District party spokesperson Shibapada Pal known to be close to Roy asked Trinamul state leadership to act against Roy’s critics for “indiscipline”, which he said was harming the party.

“These leaders have openly resorted to criticism and are raising baseless charges against the district president who was nominated by the state leadership. Activities of these leaders are affecting the party’s image in Cooch Behar. We want the state leaders to take stringent steps against them for indiscipline,” Pal said.

Other Trinamul leaders like Rahul Roy and Niranjan Dutta said they would wait for seven days to see if the state leadership would take steps against these leaders.

“Otherwise, we will launch a movement across the district with the demand to remove them from all the posts they hold. They activities are detrimental to the party's interest and we can’t let it happen,” said Rahul Roy, a party district secretary.

District party chief Roy has abstained from any counter statement. “We are in constant touch with state leaders and are acting according to their instructions,” he said.