Jolt For BJP In Bengal As Disgruntled MP Arjun Singh Joins Trinamool

Kolkata:

Arjun Singh, the previous West Bengal BJP vice-president, stop the celebration immediately and joined the Trinamool Congress. Mr Singh was welcomed into Trinamool by the celebration’s nationwide basic secretary Abhishek Banerjee at his workplace in South Kolkata. The transfer comes days after he slammed the celebration’s state management for not permitting him to work correctly.

Warmly welcoming former Vice President of @BJP4Bengal and MP from Barrackpore, Shri @ArjunsinghWB into the All India Trinamool Congress household.

He joins us immediately within the presence of our Nationwide Basic Secretary Shri @abhishekaitc. pic.twitter.com/UuOB9yp9Xo

— All India Trinamool Congress (@AITCofficial) May 22, 2022

Mr Singh’s was miffed over the Centre withdrawing the notification capping jute costs at Rs 6,500 per quintal, a requirement he and different trade stakeholders have been urgent for in the previous few weeks.

Sources additionally knowledgeable that Mr Singh had lately travelled to Delhi to fulfill the BJP’s prime brass over faction combating within the state unit of the BJP whereas additionally elevating the jute mill problem.

Mr Singh, MP of Barrackpore, has been in talks with the Trinamool Congress for the final six months. The BJP’s made a number of unsuccessful efforts to placate him, sources stated.

Arjun Singh had stop Trinamool forward of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls after the celebration gave the ticket from Barrackpore seat to Dinesh Trivedi. He defeated Mr Trivedi, who had been a two-term MP from the seat. Mr Singh’s son Pawan Singh is a BJP MLA from Bhatpara, and will observe in his father’s footsteps.

Arjun Singh is the second Lok Sabha MP after Babul Supriyo to stop the BJP in West Bengal. Mr Supriyo is now a Trinamool MLA from Ballygunge after successful the latest bye-elections within the constituency after the dying of veteran Trinamool chief Subrata Mukherjee.