NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress suffered a further blow before Bengal’s elections as main deputy of the party Dinesh Trivedi He resigned his Rajya Sabha seat on Friday, announcing it on the floor of the Chamber. Soon after, he handed over his resignation to Rajya Sabha President and Vice President Venkaiah Naidu.
While he hasn’t made it official yet, Trivedi is known to be on his way to switch sides to the BJP, following in the footsteps of some of his fellow party members who have already switched to the saffron field. On the speculation, he told reporters: “I am trying to join me first,” without ruling out the proposal.
One of TMC’s familiar faces in Delhi, Trivedi’s departure added to a series of dramatic departures from Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s party ahead of Bengal’s elections scheduled for May. He complained that TMC was being run by “someone who doesn’t know about politics” and no one had time to talk to him, implying that the party was led by Prashant Kishor, who has been recruited by Banerjee to plan his second election campaign. years ago.
“When the party passes into the hands of a corporate professional, he runs the party, no one has time to listen. Someone does not know the ABC of politics now, he is becoming my net (leader). So what can the party do people in such A situation? The daily fights, the daily abuse of each other, you cannot rule a country like this, “the 70-year-old man told reporters, claiming to feel relieved.
Trivedi, a former railroad minister under the UPA-2 regime when TMC was part of the national alliance, was recently appointed to TMC’s Rajya Sabha, after losing his seat at Barrackpore Lok Sabha to the BJP in 2019.
While TMC leaders called it “being ungrateful” on Trivedi’s part, a jubilant BJP in Kolkata quickly welcomed him to join the saffron camp.
An angry TMC lashed out at Trivedi, who had kept his distance from the party for the past two months, saying he had betrayed the party leadership and the trust of the people. TMC Rajya Sabha Deputy Leader Sukhendu Sekhar Roy said: “He is an ingrate and has betrayed the trust of the masses.”
“For the last few years, he (Trivedi) didn’t say anything. Now all of a sudden, just months before the state assembly vote, you have complaints. This shows their true colors, ”said Roy. Echoing the same sentiment, Lok Sabha party deputy Sougata Roy said: “People like Trivedi enjoy power during their tenure and leave at the time of elections. If I had grievances, I could have aired them at the party… This is unfortunate. It saddens me. It is not good that he resigned. I knew he wasn’t satisfied, but I didn’t know he would quit. ”
In announcing his resignation, Trivedi said he feels suffocated in the House because he cannot do anything about the violence that is taking place in his state, West Bengal. “If you sit here in silence and you can’t do anything, then you better give up here and go to the land of Bengal and be with the people,” he said.
“I am grateful to my party for sending me here, but now I feel a bit suffocated. We can’t do anything and there is an atrocity (continuing). My voice of conscience is saying what Swami Vivekananda used to say: get up, wake up and don’t stop until the goal is reached, ”Trivedi said, announcing his resignation.
Trivedi was reported to have said in close circles that he would be working to make Bengal a part of the national mainstream, as the state has pulled out of it, hinting at the fact that he would be part of the ruling party in the Center.
Stunned by the events, TMC sources said, he had tweeted praise for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s speech in Parliament on Thursday, at a time when his party leader Banerjee has been hammering away at BJP and its leadership. His Twitter account briefly disappeared after his resignation.
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