Amidst growing rumours of his changing political colours, Arjun Singh gets summoned to Delhi
After Barrackpore BJP MP Arjun Singh joined the Jagatdal Trinamool Congress MLA yesterday in a religious procession, the Union Textiles and Commerce & Industries Minister Piyush Goyal today summoned him to a meeting in New Delhi.
In another interesting development, quite a handful of bombs—with some media reports saying as many as 45—were recovered from the front of the BJP leader’s house in Bhatpara.
Though the official reason for the meeting is discussions on the jute industry, the real reason, according to several observers, is that the rumours swirling about Singh rejoining his old party, TMC have put the BJP in alert mode.
The growing rift between Singh and his current party is also due to issues closely linked to the jute industry and its workers—fixing the price of raw jute, making mandatory the packaging of food grains and sugar in jute bags and implementing the tariff commission’s report.
For the last several days, the MP has raised his voice for the workers and questioned the Union government’s policies on jute, going to the extent of saying that he had cut his political teeth in fighting for the welfare of jute mill workers and would therefore never abandon them.
It remains to be seen in which direction the waters would ultimately flow.
