Former Union minister and actor Shatrughan Sinha, who switched from BJP to Congress, is preparing to contest the Lok Sabha bypolls on a Trinamool Congress ticket. Let us inform that Mamata Banerjee’s party has nominated Sinha as a candidate for the Lok Sabha by-election from Asansol in Bengal. At the same time, when Sinha was asked about the Congress and their relationship, he avoided giving direct answers.
Please tell that Shatrughan Sinha was asked that he has left Congress for TMC? To this, he did not respond directly and said, “I will only say that I have joined Mamata Banerjee in her fight for communal harmony and welfare of the poor.”
Talking to news agency PTI, he said, “I am honored to have made me the TMC candidate from Asansol in the Lok Sabha by-elections by Mamata Banerjee. He is an experienced and successful politician. Which raises hope for the country against the ‘divisive politics’ of the central government.
Sinha, a two-time Rajya Sabha and Lok Sabha member, said, “Mamata Banerjee is the future of the country. I will strengthen his hand to expand ‘Khela Hobe’ across the country.”
Let us inform that by-polls to Asansol seat and Ballygunge assembly seat of West Bengal are to be held on April 12. While Sinha will be in the fray from Asansol, Babul Supriyo, a former Union minister of the Modi government, will contest the by-election from TMC from Ballygunge assembly seat. It is worth mentioning that Babul Supriyo won the Lok Sabha elections in 2014 and 2019 during his stay in BJP.
In fact, the Asansol Lok Sabha constituency has a mixed population of coal mine workers, factory workers, scrap dealers and minority population. In such a situation, Mamta Banerjee is looking for strength for herself by giving ticket to Shatrughan Sinha.
Significantly, after leaving the BJP, Shatrughan Sinha was a minister in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government led by Atal Bihari Vajpayee and later joined the Congress. He contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from his hometown Patna Sahib but lost to former Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.