Suvendu Adhikari, heavyweight in TMC is miffed with the senior TMC leaders for divulging the details of the meeting in the media and claiming that all differences with him had been sorted out.

People close to the rebellious leader said on Wednesday, a day after negotiation talks, that the impasse between the disgruntled TMC leader and West Bengal’s ruling party is not over yet.

They also said that Adhikari, an influential leader with a mass base has conveyed to the TMC leadership that it is “difficult for him to work with the party anymore”.

On Tuesday, Adhikari, who recently stepped down from the state minister’s post, had held a high-level meeting with TMC MPs Abhishek Banerjee, Sougata Roy and Sudip Bandopadhyay and election strategist Prashant Kishor.

The rebel leader did not want the details of what transpired at the back-channel talks to be leaked to the media.

‘Claim of patch-up with TMC leadership is false‘

Sources close to Adhikari said that the TMC leadership’s claim of a patch-up with the MLA was “false” and that he is unpacified as his grievances have not been addressed yet.

The leader has informed the party leadership that “it will be tough for him to work together with the party as its leaders had gone to the media making false claims without the problems raised by him getting resolved and without giving him a chance to speak”.

After Adhikari’s dismay over TMC’s rapprochement claim, senior party leader and Lok Sabha MP Sougata Roy said,” Whatever I had stated on Tuesday night was the truth about the outcome of the meeting. Now, if Suvendu has changed his position, it is for him to clarify. I have nothing more to say.”

When asked about a possibility of another round of meeting with the sulking leader, Sougata Roy said that the party is unlikely to initiate fresh talks with Suvendu.

Several attempts to bring him back

Adhikari’s resignation from the Mamata Banerjee cabinet last week came as a big blow for the TMC which has been trying to pacify the disgruntled leader through several rounds of back-channel talks.

Adhikari’s close aid said that the MLA was upset that Roy disclosed the details of the meeting in media on Tuesday night days ahead of a press conference scheduled for December 6.

“Suvendu da had sought some time after the meeting to express his views. But some party leaders tried to paint a different picture altogether. He did not like it. And now everything has reached a dead end,” the leader close to Adhikari said.

Adhikari resigned as Minister of Transport, Irrigation and Waterways on Friday amid reports of differences with the party leadership, triggering speculation that he may quit the ruling TMC ahead of the next year’s Assembly polls.