Newly-inducted Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sushmita Dev who resigned from the Kalighat faction of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) weeks back, when the Mamata Banerjee-led party was in a freefall across both the legislative and parliamentary ranks, said that she saw no future for herself in her erstwhile party, nor does the group has any future.
“Since the time TMC lost power in Bengal and the facts and corruption charges that have come out subsequently – all these have forced me to conclude that I don’t have any future in Trinamool, nor does the party have any future,” Dev said speaking to reporters in Kolkata soon after he joined the saffron camp on Thursday.
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The former Rajya Sabha MP ever reasoned that she was impressed by the work done by the Himanta Biswa Sarma government in neighbouring Assam and intends to work under his guidance. Dev is a resident of Assam’s Silchar area.
“I have been an MP from Bengal for two terms. I am a resident of Assam. I have seen how Assam has prospered in the last 10 years,” Dev said speaking to reporters in Kolkata.
The senior politician who had earlier been with the Congress admitted, “I got into Bengal politics in the last 5 years. There’s no denying that.”
Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, Prakash Chik Baraik and Sushmita Dev, the three Rajya Sabha MPs who resigned from TMC after the party’s debacle in the assembly elections, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday.