Abhijit Mukherjee, Pranab Mukherjee's Son & Ex-Congress MP Joins Trinamool Congress

Abhijit Mukherjee, former president Pranab Mukherjee's son on July 5  joined the Trinamool Congress. With this move ended weeks of speculation & denial by him. Trinamool may offer the former Congress MP from Jangipur & an MLA from Nalhati, the Jangipur assembly seat which is due a bypoll as a candidate there had passed away just before the elections. Abhijit Mukherjee's father Pranab Mukherjee won the Jangipur parliamentary constituency in Bengal's Murshidabad district twice as a Congress MP till he left it in 2012 to run for President. The Congress party , which fought the Bengal elections in partnership with the Left, was decimated. The party got zero seats; the Left too did not manage to win any seat. Rumours of Mukherjee's exit gathered pace after Jitin Prasada vaulted to the BJP. Jitin Prasada is Congress's top Brahmin face in UP. Prasada is the second high-profile Rahul Gandhi aide to move to the BJP after Jyotiraditya Scindia left last year. Watch the video to know more.

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