A day after Mukul Roy joined Trinamool Congress leaving BJP, former West Bengal minister Rajib Banerjee, who had moved to the saffron celebration solely months earlier than the meeting elections, met TMC chief Kunal Ghosh on Saturday fuelling speculations of his return to the outdated celebration. Banerjee, who unsuccessfully fought the elections on BJP ticket from Domjur, went to state TMC normal secretary Kunal Ghosh residence within the northern half of the town the place the 2 had lengthy assembly which later each described as a “courtesy name”.
“Please do not try to look into this as something different. I had come to see one of my relatives who is staying in the same locality of Kunalda’s. This is nothing but a courtesy call. There was no political talk between us,” Banerjee advised reporters whereas popping out of Ghosh’s house.
Ghosh additionally echoed comparable views. Though the 2 stated that not a lot needs to be learn into the assembly, speculations are rife that many TMC leaders who had crossed over to the saffron celebration earlier than meeting polls are ready for a possibility to return to the mother or father celebration.
Talking to reporters after Muku Roy’s homecoming, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had stated Friday, “we are going to think about the case of those that had left the TMC with Mukul for BJP and wish to come again.” It signalled that this might not be a lone case of defection from the BJP’s Bengal unit. However, Banerjee had clarified that TMC politicians and workers who left to join the BJP just ahead of the April-May assembly elections will not be taken back.
When asked about his current position, Rajib Banerjee said, he has some reservations regarding the saffron party’s principles. “I definitely have reservations about the principles of the party (BJP) and I have let my party leaders know about it… But today’s meeting with Kunalda has no connection with that,” he added.
Incidentally, Banerjee earlier this week had warned members of his new celebration over a social media put up that “individuals won’t take kindly to threats of Presidents rule in opposition to a authorities elected with an enormous mandate”. The vehicle in which Banerjee travelled to Ghosh’s residence had several stickers and ‘uttorio’ (shawl) of the TMC.
After quitting the TMC in January, Banerjee had claimed that he was forced to do so as a section of party leaders “humiliated him for airing his grievances over their style of functioning”. Banerjee had served as minister within the TMC authorities each in 2011 and 2016.
Several former TMC MLAs together with Dipendu Biswas and Sonali Guha have within the latest previous despatched letters regretting their determination to affix the BJP and sought to return again to the partys fold. Guha, who at one time was thought-about near Banerjee, made an impassioned plea on digicam searching for the chief ministers forgiveness.
Guha, a four-time legislator from Satgachia in South 24 Parganas, had additionally written in a letter “the best way fish can’t keep out of water, I will be unable to dwell with out you, Didi”.
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