Hours after joining the Trinamool Congress on Saturday, singer-politician Babul Supriyo said that he had become “disillusioned” with the B...
Hours after joining the Trinamool Congress on Saturday, singer-politician Babul Supriyo said that he had become “disillusioned” with the Bharatiya Janata Party, NDTV reported.
Supriyo, who won the Asansol Lok Sabha seat in the 2019 general elections on a BJP ticket, had quit active politics in July after he was dropped as a Union minister from Narendra Modi’s Cabinetduring a reshuffle. On July 31, Supriyo had said that he would resign as an MP as well. But two days later he said he will continue to be an MP.
“I did feel disillusioned...The seven years of hard work that I put in....Not even my detractors will say that I have not fought in Bengal or I have not done good enough for the party,” Supriyo told NDTV in an interview.
The former Union minister said he felt as if his political journey was “reaching a bottleneck” in the BJP. “I am not really okay with sitting on the bench,” Supriyo added. “Rather than pleading with the coach to make me part of the playing eleven, I felt I should move on to a team where the coach would want me in the playing eleven.”
In another interview to The Indian Express, Supriyo said that Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’ Brien offered him a chance to join the party.
“It was an...
