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Dinesh Trivedi
Dinesh Trivedi joining the BJP (Image Credit: BJP)

Former Trinamool Congress MP Dinesh Trivedi joins BJP

| @indiablooms | Mar 06, 2021, at 06:21 pm

New Delhi/IBNS: Barely a few weeks ahead of the West Bengal elections, former Railway Minister and ex-Trinamool Congress MP Dinesh Trivedi joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) here Saturday.

Trivedi joined the saffron camp in presence of BJP national president Jagat Prakash Nadda.

Joining the party, Trivedi said, "The Trinamool Congress serves only one family. I was sick of staying in the party which was involved in corruption and violence."

Welcoming the leader, Nadda said, "Dinesh Trivedi came to the BJP for idealism. He was the right man in the wrong party but now he is the right man in the right party."

Nadda also said Trivedi will be actively participating in some way in the upcoming polls in West Bengal.

Surprising his party colleagues, Trived in February announced resignation from Parliament's upper house Rajya Sabha.

Addressing the house, Trivedi had said, "Often moments come in life when we listen to our soul. I am witnessing the way violence is taking place in West Bengal. So I am resigning as the Rajya Sabha member listening to my soul."

Trivedi had unsuccessfully contested the 2019 Lok Sabha polls as a Trinamool candidate from West Bengal's Barrackpore.

Later, he was nominated to the Rajya Sabha.

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