BENGAL BJP MP ARJUN SINGH BACK WITH DIDI AFTER 3 YEARS

(The Quiver): Days after criticising the Centre over its jute policy and upset over not being able to work freely in Bengal, BJP MP from Barrackpore Arjun Singh returned to the Trinamool Congress on Sunday.

Singh joined the party in presence of TMC’s National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee at his Camac Street office in Kolkata. After joining the TMC, Singh said: “The way Trinamool Congress is working on the development of Bengal is worth appreciating. I am from the jute mill area and the people there have been suffering because of the Centre’s unjust policies. BJP is limited to Facebook and other social mediums. It is not possible to do politics only on Facebook. Working on the ground is important in Bengal and the BJP is losing out on that as their leaders are sitting in air-conditioned rooms.”

Arjun Singh left his Bhatpara residence this afternoon and reached a five-star hotel in Alipore. At the same time, TMC’s National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee held a meeting with the party’s leaders of Barrackpore and North 24 Parganas at his Camac Street office. Sources privy to the meeting said that the leaders held long discussions as to whether Singh should be taken back into the fold. The meeting was attended by Barrackpore MLA Raj Chakraborty, Jyoti Priya Mullik and MLA Partha Bhowmik.

The countdown has started. If I do ghar waapsi you all will come to know. Until it’s officially done, there is no point talking about it. I have been working with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee even before she had formed a party,” Singh had said earlier in the day.