Bengal Politics
Happy at the way Mamata Banerjee gave love, affection, warmth: Babul Supriyo after meeting TMC chief
Kolkata/IBNS: Former Union Minister Babul Supriyo, who joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC) last week, Monday said he was "happy" at the way love and affection were showered on him by party supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Supriyo, who dumped TMC's arch-rival Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) last Saturday, met the Chief Minister at state headquarters Nabanna in Howrah.
"Happy to meet Mamata Banerjee. I am happy at the way she gave me love, affection and warmth. Had a musical talk as well," Supriyo said.
On his role in the TMC, Supriyo said, "Didi (Mamata Banerjee) will decide how I will be used in the TMC. I will work for people," and added, "I will be able to work in TMC with a free mind."
Supriyo, a Lok Sabha MP from West Bengal's Asansol, Saturday joined the TMC in presence of party's national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and Rajya Sabha MP Derek O'Brien.
Supriyo, who had unsuccessfully contested the 2021 assembly elections in Mar-Apr as a BJP candidate from Tollygunge, was stripped off his ministry in the last cabinet reshuffle of the Modi government at the Centre.
On the same day when he lost his junior ministry, the two-term MP had announced quitting politics though he had stated he would not join any other party.
Supriyo, after the TMC's massive victory in West Bengal polls in May, had tweeted that he would not thank Mamata Banerjee for the win and even termed the massive mandate for the CM as a historic mistake of the people of Bengal.
Though the BJP had included Supriyo's name in the star campaigner's list for the Bhabanipur bypoll where Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is contesting herself, the former arch-rival of the TMC had refused to hit the streets for saffron party candidate Priyanka Tibrewal.
Supriyo, a singer-turned politician, won from Asansol in 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha assembly elections.
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