Buckling under party pressure, Babul retracts decision to step down as MP
Updated Aug 3, 2021, 9:52 am IST
Experience of serving as a member of his Council of Ministers shall always remain a Priceless Treasure in my Memory, he said
Referring to the BJP leadership, the Bollywood singer said, I am eternally grateful to Amit Shahji & Adarniya J.P. Naddaji for all their affection & support. (ANI)
Kolkata: Within two days of his dramatic announcement to quit as BJP MP of Asansol, former union minister Babul Supriyo took a U-turn buckling under pressure from the party leadership.
Late on Monday evening he posted on Facebook, “I am happy to reverse my earlier decision to Quit as a MP and shall continue to honour my Constitutional responsibilities as the Member of Parliament of Asansol. I shall be available for everything that is expected of me as a MP and anything else that my constituency has the right to expect from me.”
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Burdwan East MP Sunil Mandal, deemed a close aide to Suvendu Adhikari, on Tuesday was the latest addition to the rapidly growing list of Trinamul Congress turncoats in the BJP to publicly criticise their new party following the saffron camp’s defeat in the Assembly polls.
Mandal whose disqualification as a Lok Sabha member Trinamul has been demanding also turned the knife, saying trusting Adhikari was his “biggest mistake”.
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“I thought the BJP was an organised party. But I later found out it isn’t. Trinamul has much better organisational strength and hence it won,” said Mandal, one of the two Trinamul MPs (the other being Adhikari’s father, Sisir), who formally defected to the BJP before the polls.
India News: On a day of fast-paced events, when speculation of a leading opposition figure joining BJP gripped the Capital, Congress leader Jitin Prasada made a d.