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Why Babul Supriyo joined TMC

Asansol MP and former Union minister Babul Supriyo on Saturday joined the Trinamool Congress (TMC). Supriyo, a two-term MP from Asansol, had earlier declared he will quit politics, before being persuaded by the BJP leadership to continue as a Lok Sabha member.

Babul Supriyo, who was earlier in the BJP, joined the TMC in presence of party's national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee and Rajya Sabha MP Derek O'Brien.

Unlike many in a regimented party like the BJP, Supriyo had openly voiced his displeasure over being dropped from the Union government during its long-awaited reshuffle in July which incidentally came in the wake of his defeat in Tollygunge in the March-April West Bengal assembly polls.

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