Ex-TMC MP Dinesh Trivedi joins BJP

Trinamool Congress MP Dinesh Trivedi, who dramatically quit Rajya Sabha last month claiming he was feeling “suffocated” over “violence in the state”, joined the BJP)in the presence of party’s national president J P Nadda and Union minister Piyush Goyal in New Delhi. Welcoming Trivedi to the party, Nadda said the Bengal leader now belongs to the right party. “Former TMC MP Dinesh Trivedi was a right person in a wrong party, now he is in the right party,” Nadda said. Reacting to the development, the Trinamool Congress described the Trivedi as “ungrateful” who has “betrayed” the people of West Bengal. TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said, “For so many years, he did not say anything against the party. Now, just before Assembly polls, he has made complaints about the party. He is ungrateful and has betrayed people of the state.”