Agartala, Feb 8 (UNI) A day after resigning from the BJP and also as legislators, two senior Tripura politicians – Sudip Roy Barman and Ashis Kumar Saha – on Tuesday joined Congress at the party headquarters in New Delhi. All India Congress Committee (AICC) General Secretary (Organization) K C Venugopal, party’s Tripura in-charge Ajoy Kumar and state president Birajit Sinha welcomed the two leaders into the party fold. Before formally joining the Congress, Roy Barman and Saha called on Congress president Sonia Gandhi, former party chief Rahul Gandhi and its current General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi separately on Tuesday morning and had detailed discussion over the latest political situation in the Northeastern state. According to reports, both Roy Barman and Saha held several rounds of meetings with some BJP leaders including three party lawmakers from Tripura on Monday night regarding political developments in the state. Leaders of some other Tripura opposition parties were also present at the discussions that centered on putting up a likely united fight against the BJP in Tripura. After joining Congress, Roy Barman told UNI, “We had committed a sin by joining BJP before the 2018 assembly elections and brought that party to power. Today we atoned for our sin by returning to Congress. It’s a great feeling of homecoming after six years. We left the party in 2016 and joined TMC and later BJP, which was a blunder for ourselves and the people of Tripura as well.” “I had begun my political journey 40 years ago in Congress and barring these six years, I have always been in the party. But this short break in two parties has taught me a lesson and I am convinced Congress is the best party not only for Tripura but also for the country to give a stable and welfare government to the citizens as mandated by the constitution,” Roy Barman said. He alleged there is “complete chaos, misrule, reign of terror and loot of public funds” in Tripura under the Biplab Kumar Deb government for the past four years and added, “Cabinet ministers have no power to take a decision, Chief Minister and a few of his blue-eyed bureaucrats are looting the state.
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