Former Union Minister and ex-BJP MP Babul Supriyo formally joins TMC

New Delhi: Sitting BJP MP Babul Supriyo joined TMC today. Babul Supriyo joined the BJP in 2014 and has been elected twice from Asansol.

He joined TMC in the presence of National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee and RS MP Derek O’Brien.

Series of pictures was shared by All India Trinamool Congress at their social media account.

Today, in the presence of National General Secretary @abhishekaitc and RS MP @derekobrienmp, former Union Minister and sitting MP @SuPriyoBabul joined the Trinamool family.

We take this opportunity to extend a very warm welcome to him! pic.twitter.com/6OEeEz5OGj

— All India Trinamool Congress (@AITCofficial) September 18, 2021

Earlier the Bharatiya Janata Party leader Supriyo had announced that he was leaving politics and will also resign as an MP. He had stated that he would not join any political party and neither have the parties including the Trinamool Congress, CPI(M) or Congress had not called him.

Supriyo had resigned earlier as minister of state for Environment, Forest and Climate Change. In a Facebook post, he said that there was a difference of opinion between him and the state BJP leaders and that the difference of opinion among senior leaders was “harming the party”.

This is a developing story.