Ex-Trinamool MP Dinesh Trivedi joins BJP
The Trinamool congressional deputy, who dramatically resigned Rajya Sabha last month, claiming he felt “suffocated” by “violence in the state”, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of the party’s national chairman, JP Nadda, and Union Minister Piyush Goyal in New Delhi on Saturday.
Welcoming Trivedi to the party, Nadda said that the Bengal leader now belongs to the right-wing party. “Former TMC MP Dinesh Trivedi was a right person in the wrong party, now he’s in the right party,” said Nadda.
Trivedi, for his part, called his joining BJP a “golden moment that he had been waiting for.”
On February 12, the former Minister of Railways of the Union was speaking during the debate on the Budget when he made the announcement of his departure from TMC. Stating that by listening to the speakers, he had begun to reflect and decided to act in accordance with his conscience, Trivedi said: “Why did we go into politics? We entered politics for the country. The time had come to decide “if the country is bigger, your side is bigger or you yourself are bigger”.
During his speech, Trivedi, who has been with the Trinamool since 1998 and was in the first year of his six-year tenure at the Rajya Sabha, also praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi, speaking of both the government’s and the government’s Covid efforts. Modi’s tearful farewell. to Congress Rajya Sabha MP Ghulam Nabi Azad, who retired on February 15.
Referring to West Bengal during his announcement, Trivedi had said “the way there is violence in my state”, he felt strange sitting in the Rajya Sabha. “If you’re at a party, you are (bound by) that party discipline. I am grateful to my party for sending me here, but now I feel some suffocation. That we can’t do anything and that atrocities are happening, ”he said, adding that while leaving the Rajya Sabha, he would continue to work for Bengal and the country.
The Trinamool, however, attacked Trivedi, calling his resignation a “betrayal”. Rajya Sabha Party Deputy Leader Sukhendu Sekhar Roy said: “For so many years, he said nothing. Now all of a sudden, and only a few months before the state Assembly elections, you have complaints. This shows its true colors. He is ungrateful and has betrayed the trust of the masses. ”
Beating Trivedi, Trinamool Lok Sabha MP Sougata Roy had said: “People like him enjoy power and leave at election time.”
The TMC also demanded an investigation into how Trivedi was allowed to speak in the Upper House during a budget discussion on Friday even though the party did not recommend his name. The party alleged that Trivedi took the “House for a spin” and was “allowed” to use the House floor for his “twisted political ends.” The party led by Mamata Banerjee claimed that Trivedi spoke on their behalf, consuming the time allotted to him.
Previously in Congress and the Janata Party, Trivedi had joined Trinamool when it was formed by Mamata in 1998, and was one of its first general secretaries. Trivedi, a Lok Sabha MP for two terms, has also had public differences with the Trinamool leadership previously, resigned as Minister of Railways in 2012 over policy disagreements with Mamata, after which he was suspended from the party before being reinstated. . He has also served as the Union’s Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare.
Trivedi had been chosen by Trinamool for a Rajya Sabha seat in March 2020, after losing to Barrackpore in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
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