Weeks after quitting politics, former BJP leader Babul Supriyo joins TMC

The TMC announced that Babul Supriyo joined the Mamata Banerjee-led party in presence of senior TMC leaders Abhishek Banerjee and Derek O’Brien.

NewsBharati    18-Sep-2021
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Kolkata, Sept 18: Days after announcing that he is quitting politics, former BJP leader Babul Supriyo joined the Trinamool Congress on Saturday. The TMC announced that the former union minister joined the Mamata Banerjee-led party in presence of senior TMC leaders Abhishek Banerjee and Derek O’Brien.
 
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"Today, in the presence of National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee and RS MP Derek O’Brien, former Union Minister and sitting MP Babul Supriyo joined the Trinamool family. We take this opportunity to extend a very warm welcome to him!" it said.
 
 
In August, Supriyo had quit the BJP following recent Union Cabinet reshuffle. He was the Minister of State for Environment, Forest, and Climate Change in the Modi government, but he was dropped from the govt during the cabinet reshuffle on July 7.
 
He had expressed disappointment after he was excluded from Ministership following the Cabinet reshuffle. He had posted on Twitter that he was “asked to resign”, but later he had deleted that and posted “Yes, I have resigned from the Council of Ministers”. Following this, he had announced his exit from politics on 31 July.
 
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But with this joining, it means that he has not quit politics, and he had only left BJP. After quitting ‘politics’ and BJP, he had claimed that he will not be joining any other party. He had even dismissed rumours that he was joining TMC, but he has taken a massive U-turn now.
 
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The presence of Abhishek Banerjee during his joining TMC should be considered significant because Abhishek is the nephew of Mamata Banerjee is considered the closest to the TMC supremo in the party. It shows that TMC is considering Babul Supriyo as a heavyweight leader.