Former Railways Minister and Trinamool Rajya Sabha Congressman Dinesh Trivedi joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday, the latest in a long list of such defections in recent months before the Assembly elections.
Moments after joining the BJP, Trivedi said, “The golden moment I have been waiting for.”
Trivedi joined the BJP in the presence of the party chairman, JP Nadda. Also present was the Minister of the Union, Piyush Goyal.
“Former TMC MP Dinesh Trivedi was the right person in the wrong party, now he’s in the right party,” Nadda said.
The 70-year-old had resigned from Rajya Sabha on February 12, weeks before the West Bengal Assembly elections.
Trivedi, who represented West Bengal in Rajya Sabha for the third time and was minister of railways, announced his resignation at the house during a debate on the Union Budget, saying that he cannot speak about the violence in his state.
Trivedi said he was forced to make a decision and had to follow his “conscience” after seeing “the kind of violence taking place in his state” of West Bengal and that he would continue to work for “Bengal and the country”. “
West Bengal will vote in eight phases from March 27 to April 29, the results of which will be announced on May 2.
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