Presumably for the first time, the Ranji Jewel will drink a sitting minister into its fold, as an active player. Manoj Tiwary, West Bengal’s Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports, would turn up for the Bengal Ranji platoon, when the event starts on January 13.

At the moment, the 36- time-old is successfully‘ mixing’ sports and politics.

“ I’ve erected a core platoon that will do the job in my absence in my constituency. My platoon has the ( original Trinamool Congress) block chairman, women’s sect head, members of our scholars sect and other educated political leaders and our work force. So far, we have n’t faced any problem. We’ve been suitable to give services at my constituency,” Tiwary told The Indian Express.

Bengal, in Group B, will play their group league institutions in Bangalore, but the middle- order batsman believes that with right communication, the distance can be bridged.
“ I’ll be available on phone and will cover everything, and I ’m veritably confident that I’ll be suitable to shoulder the binary responsibility,” he said, adding that his woman would be helping him in his work.

Querying for Trinamool Congress, Tiwary won from the Shibpur constituency in Howrah in the last Bengal Assembly choices. But he noway allowed about giving up justice and had principal minister Mamata Banerjee’s “ blessings”.
“ I noway allowed about quitting justice and I bandied it with our chief minister. She told me,‘No problem, khel na ( keep playing)’. This is my profession and passion, which is the reason I did n’t advertise my withdrawal. Whatever I ’m moment is because of my justice,” Tiwary said.

And the former Bengal captain, who has 12 ODIs, three T20Is and 125 first- class matches under his belt, is happy with his medication for the Ranji Jewel. “ I’ve played practice matches, a club game for Mohun Bagan and scored two centuries. My end is to come the loftiest run-getter in the Ranji Jewel this season and if I can do that, Bengal will have a successful crusade. The seasons I’ve scored around runs, Bengal have gone deep into the event,” Tiwary said, stressing that he’d be in the dressing- room “ as a elderly player, as a family and a platoon mate” and not as a minister.

He claimed that the binary responsibility wo n’t affect his focus, for he has a clear-abbreviated way to manage his time while playing justice. “ In the evening, I look into the lines and other office work and do the needful.”

Apropos, the current Union Minister of Sports, Youth Affairs and Minister of Information and Broadcasting Anurag Thakur played first- class justice before coming into active politics. Kirti Azad, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Laxmi Ratan Shukla and Tejashwi Yadav, too, hung up their justice thrills before joining politics.

Squad Abhimanyu Easwaran (c), Manoj Tiwary, Sudip Chatterjee, Anustup Majumdar, Abhishek Raman, Sudip Gharami, Abishek Das, Writtick Chatterjee, Ritwik Roy Chowdhury, Abhishek Porel, Shahbaz Ahmed, Sayan Sekhar Mondal, Akash Deep, Ishan Porel, Mukesh Kumar, Kazi Junaid Saifi, Sakir Habib Gandhi, Pradipta Pramanik, Geet Puri, Nilakantha Das and Karan Lal.