Ex-President Pranab Mukherjee’s Son Abhijit Returns To Congress: ‘Again To Proper Occasion’ – News18
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Abhijit Mukherjee Joins Congress: Regretting his resolution to have joined the TMC in 2021, Abhijit Mukherjee stated, “I apologise for this; it was not proper for me to go away the Congress.”
Abhijit Mukherjee Joins Congress: Former MP Abhijit Mukherjee joins the Congress. (Picture: West Bengal Congress/ X)
Former President Pranab Mukherjee’s son Abhijit Mukherjee rejoined the Congress on Wednesday after a four-year-long stint within the Trinamool Congress.
The previous Lok Sabha MP was given the Congress membership on the occasion’s state headquarters right here within the presence of AICC basic secretary and West Bengal in-charge Ghulam Ahmed Mir.
Regretting his resolution to have joined the TMC in 2021, Mukherjee stated, “I apologise for this; it was not proper for me to go away the Congress.” “That is my second birthday within the Congress and politics,” Mukherjee instructed reporters after being handed over the occasion flag by the nationwide and state management.
Claiming that there isn’t any various to the grand outdated occasion within the nation’s politics, he stated, “Solely the Congress takes alongside all folks no matter their caste, creed and faith.” Mukherjee stated that he had expressed his want to rejoin the Congress in June final yr, however owing to completely different state elections, it may happen now.
He returned to the Congress 4 years after switching over to the Trinamool Congress in July 2021.
Mukherjee had not been seen in a a lot lively position throughout his stint within the TMC. Sustaining that Mukherjee has come again to the “proper occasion,” Mir stated that his becoming a member of will assist the Congress in its efforts to strengthen the occasion’s base in West Bengal.
“There are two kinds of ideologies working within the political enviornment at current within the nation – on one aspect are the divisive forces and on the opposite the secular forces who take everybody collectively,” stated Mir, an MLA of Jammu and Kashmir.
He claimed that the Congress was working along with all sections of the society.
“Whereas one power is attempting to alter the Structure, the Congress is working for the welfare of all throughout the scope of the Structure,” Mir stated.
Stating that a number of political events in numerous elements of the nation need to tread the trail of secularism, “however some are not directly enjoying into the fingers of others.” Mukherjee had gained a bye-election to the Jangipur Lok Sabha constituency in 2012 on a Congress ticket after his illustrious father, who had helmed a number of key positions within the Union authorities as a Congress chief, was elected the President of India.
Mukherjee had additionally gained the 2014 parliamentary elections from the identical constituency as a Congress candidate.
He had misplaced within the 2019 Lok Sabha polls from Jangipur securing the third place after the candidates of the TMC and the BJP.
He joined the Congress occasion as a political novice in 2011 and gained the 2011 meeting polls as its candidate from the Nalhati section.
Previous to becoming a member of politics in 2011, Mukherjee labored as a company govt each within the personal and public sectors.
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