Arjun Singh joins Trinamool, immediately puts pressure on Adhikari family regarding issue of resigning from MP seat
After days of suspense, Arjun Singh finally joined Trinamool Congress yesterday, leaving the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which he joined in March 2019.
Following the joining ceremony, he interacted with the media. At the press conference, he was asked, now that he is no longer a part of BJP, whether he would resign from his MP seat, a seat which he had won as a member of the saffron party. Arjun Singh, however, cleverly put the ball in the Adhikari family’s court, saying that he would resign only if they did.
Sisir Adhikari and his son Dibyendu Adhikari won from Kanthi and Tamluk, respectively, in 2019 as members of Trinamool. Following Suvendu Adhikari’s resignation from Trinamool and joining BJP before the 2021 assembly elections, they too did so. But neither resigned from their Lok Sabha memberships.
It remains to be seen whether this issue would sow seeds of discord within the Adhikari family.
