NEW DELHI: Trinamool rebel Subhendu Adhikari received feelers from Congress leader Rahul Gandhi amid clear indications that he is set to quit the Mamata Banerjee-led party and join BJP ahead of West Bengal elections.
It is learnt that a Congress leader from Bengal called Adhikari and conveyed the message from Rahul Gandhi that he join the Congress.
However, Adhikari is learnt to have said that while he belongs to a Congress family and was part of the Youth Congress, his political purpose would not be served by joining the Congress. He apparently said that Congress was organisationally weak in Bengal while his ambition was to have a political say in state politics.