Abhijit Mukherjee, say sources, met with Trinamool Congress leaders final week.
Former president Pranab Mukherjee’s son Abhijit Mukherjee has denied that he’ll stop the Congress and be part of the Trinamool Congress, however current tweets have bolstered hypothesis that he intends to modify.
“I have not said anything in this context to anyone!” – Abhijit Mukherjee, a former MP, wrote on Friday in a now-deleted tweet. Notably, there was no outright denial that he was becoming a member of Mamata Banerjee’s occasion.
On the identical day, Mr Mukherjee advised the Press Trust of India: “I remain in the Congress and reports that I am joining Trinamool or any other party are not correct.”
But Mr Mukherjee, say sources, met with Trinamool Congress leaders final week.
There is concept that he shall be supplied the Jangipur meeting seat by the Trinamool; his father Pranab Mukherjee received the Jangipur parliamentary constituency twice as a Congress MP until he vacated it in 2012 to run for President. Jangipur is among the many meeting seats the place bypolls shall be held. Abhijit Mukherjee received bypolls within the Jangipur parliamentary constituency after his father vacated the seat and in 2014 as effectively. He misplaced to the Trinamool’s Khalilur Rahman in 2019.
Besides Mr Mukherjee, the opposite huge identify mentioned to be headed to the Trinamool Congress is its alum Rajib Banerjee, who joined the BJP simply earlier than the April-May state election and has been counted amongst leaders on the lookout for a homecoming since Mamata Banerjee’s large victory within the state election.
Rajib Banerjee is extensively anticipated to be the subsequent after Mukul Roy, who final week returned to the Trinamool Congress almost 4 years within the BJP. The former Bengal minister has criticised the BJP in current Facebook posts and met Trinamool leaders together with Partho Chatterjee over the weekend. Sources say the assembly was to condole the dying of Mr. Chatterjee’s mom.
