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He Is Ungrateful, Says TMC On Dinesh Trivedi Joining BJP

Mumbai: Condemning former Rajya Sabha MP Dinesh Trivedi for joining the BJP, the Trinamool Congress on Saturday said he was “ungrateful” and has backstabbed the ruling party in West Bengal ahead of the assembly polls.

Trivedi walked out of the Upper House of Parliament last month, saying that he was feeling suffocated in the Trinamool Congress and could not bear the various incidents happening in the state.

Earlier in the day, he joined the BJP at his headquarters in New Delhi in the presence of JP Nadda, the president of the saffron party.

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Reacting to the development, Trinamool Congress spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said, “For the past several years, he (Trivedi) has not said anything. Now, just before the state assembly elections, he has made complaints about the party. He is ungrateful and has betrayed people of the state.”

Ghosh said, “He has held several positions in the party and given many responsibilities. At a time when he should have repaid the Trinamool Congress, he has supported it.”

Trivedi was once a close confidant of West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee and was her choice for the important railway ministry in the Union Cabinet during the UPA government.

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Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha MP Saugata Roy said, “People like Trivedi enjoy power during their tenure and leave the party at the time of elections.”

Several TMC leaders have left the party in recent months to join the BJP as the saffron party runs an aggressive all-out campaign to end Banerjee’s 10-year rule in the state.

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Apart from Trivedi, two former ministers of the state – Suvendu Adhikari and Rajib Banerjee had left the Trinamool Congress and recently joined the BJP.

Since the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the party’s 19 TMC MLAs and one Lok Sabha MP had joined the BJP.

Elections to 294 assembly seats in West Bengal will be held in eight phases, starting on March 27. Votes will be counted on 2 May.

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