Netaji's great-grandson Chandra Kumar Bose joins Trinamool Congress

Kolkata, April 12 : Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose's great-grandson Chandra Kumar Bose on Sunday joined the Trinamool Congress after completely disassociating himself from the BJP.

Bose was officially inducted into the party at Trinamool Bhavan in the presence of state minister Bratya Basu and party MP Kirti Azad, who handed him the Trinamool flag.

Earlier, after being called for the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) hearing, Chandra Bose became disillusioned with the BJP, wondering why there was any doubt about his citizenship, even after being the great-grandson of a freedom fighter like Netaji.

Ahead of the Assembly polls, Chandra Bose has officially joined the Trinamool. "A few years ago, I made a historic mistake by joining the Bharatiya Janata Party. I have corrected that mistake today," he said at the press conference.

In 2016, Chandra Bose had joined the BJP in the presence of then party President Amit Shah during a rally in Howrah. However, he distanced himself from the party after the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

"When (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi first came to power in the country in 2014, I liked him very much. He took the country forward on the path of progress. Then, in 2016, when I joined the party, I gradually saw that the Bharatiya Janata Party does not respect the constitution of the country. Moreover, they have no similarity with the culture of Bengal. The politics that is going on across the country now, the politics of communalism, the politics of division, is disastrous," he said at the press conference.

"Earlier, on Netaji's birthday on January 23, I met Mamata Banerjee. I told her that your fight is very important not only for Bengal but for the entire country. I asked her to come forward in her fight against divisive politics," he added.