Shatrughan Sinha Likely To Ditch Congress For TMC, Talks With Leadership At Final Stage: Sources

Insiders in Trinamool Congress claim that Shatrughan Sinha is inclined towards joining the Trinamool Congress after CM Mamata Banerjee's decisive victory in West Bengal election.

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Kolkata: After late Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijeet Mukherjee, another Congress leader Shatrughan Sinha is likely to cross over to the Trinamool Congress soon, sources said.

Senior Trinamool leaders claim that the talks with the actor-turned-politician are at the final stage and if everything goes as expected, he might join hands with CM Mamata Banerjee on July 21. 

According to a report by news agency IANS, insiders in Trinamool Congress claim that Shatrughan Sinha is inclined towards joining the Trinamool Congress after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee single-handedly destroyed the heavyweight saffron brigade in the West Bengal assembly election this year.

Shatrughan Sinha had walked out of the Bharatiya Janata Party after being openly criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, saying that the saffron party has become "one man party and two men army".

However, recently he sent mixed signals about his dismay with the saffron party when tweeted that apart from three variants of Covid, there is a fourth variant of people being "dukhi" (unhappy) with Modi without any reason.

This was seen as a homecoming effort by the former Patna Sahib Lok Sabha MP but looks like he is more inclined towards the TMC than BJP.

When asked about joining Trinamool Congress, the actor-turned-politician didn't dismiss the possibility and replied: "Politics is an art of possibility".

His former BJP colleague Yashwant Sinha had also joined the Trinamool and was made the vice-president.

Currently, there are two seats in Rajya Sabha that are lying vacant after former union minister Dinesh Trivedi quit and joined the saffron party before the Bengal election; and Trinamool Congress MP Manas Bhuniaya contested the just-concluded state polls and made a minister in Banerjee's third successive government.

According to the report, Shatrughan Sinha can be sent to the Upper House of Parliament from one of the two seats of the TMC.