New Delhi: Former Calcutta Excessive Court docket decide Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay on Thursday joined the BJP within the presence of state celebration president Sukanta Majumdar, Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari and others. Gangopadhyay, who resigned from his publish on Tuesday, had declared that he’ll be a part of the BJP on seventh March. Justice Gangopadhyay despatched his resignation letter to President Droupadi Murmu, with copies to Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and the Chief Justice of the Calcutta HC TS Sivagnanam.
On Gangopadhyay’s arrival, West Bengal BJP Chief Sukanta Majumdar says, “As a State President of BJP I welcome former Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay to our celebration, to the household of Narendra Modi. I consider the way in which he has labored as a Justice for disadvantaged, exploited victims of Bengal, he’ll carry ahead that work with the management of the BJP.”
#WATCH | Kolkata, West Bengal | Former Calcutta Excessive Court docket decide Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay joins the BJP within the presence of state celebration chief Sukanta Majumdar, LoP Suvendu Adhikari and others. pic.twitter.com/hOPGX9p33j
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Majumdar additionally claimed that Bengal’s politics will take a pointy flip within the coming future. “That is the best time for the educated youth of Bengal to return ahead and contribute to turning the politics of the state for good, he added.
Speaking to information company ANI, Gangopadhyay on Monday indicated his political ambitions and stated he “needs to go to the bigger folks, bigger space.” The Calcutta Excessive Court docket Choose additionally noticed that in court docket, a decide offers with the issues which can be dropped at him by somebody who information a case. However in our nation and likewise in our state, West Bengal, there are a lot of helpless individuals who I’ve seen who can not come to the court docket.
Additionally, implying that he may be a part of politics, Justice Gangopadhyay stated “So I’ve thought that solely the political area may give individuals who wish to work for these helpless folks a possibility to behave for them.”
Earlier in February, the Supreme Court docket linked Trinamool Congress chief Abhishek Banerjee’s petition to take motion towards Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay for his alleged “steady politically motivated interviews” associated to sub-judice instances.
