Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay, a former judge of the Calcutta High Court, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday, with the Lok Sabha elections just months away.
After joining the BJP, Gangopadhyay told ANI, “Today’s joining is nice. The way they have welcomed me is overwhelming…Everybody knows corruption is to be fought.”
On Sandeshkhali, he said, “It is a very bad incident. The state leaders have gone there. They have been prevented from reaching there. Despite that, they have reached and stood beside the women there and BJP is taking up the cause of oppressed people in Sandeshkhali”.
In Kolkata, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay was formally inducted into the party in the presence of Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, State Party Chief Sukanta Majumdar, and others.
Welcoming him in the party fold, Sukanta Majumdar said, “As a State President of BJP I welcome former Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay to our party, to the family of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. I believe the way he has worked as a Justice for deprived, exploited victims of Bengal, he will carry forward that work with the leadership of the BJP”.
“In the coming future, Bengal’s politics will take a turn. This is the right time for the educated youth of Bengal to come forward and contribute to turning the politics of the state for good,” the BJP leader said.
After stepping down from the Calcutta High Court earlier this month, Abhijit Gangopadhyay declared his intention to join the BJP.
There has been rumors that Gangopadhyay will run on a BJP ticket from Bengal’s Tamluk constituency in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The Tamluk seat has been a bastion of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in recent elections; the party has held it since the 2009 election.
Former Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay has however not indicated anything leaving the decision of his contesting the elections to the BJP.