A large number of Congressmen who had
joined the BJP in the run-up to the last assembly polls in February 2018 hoping
for a positive change yesterday returned home to their ancestral home in
beleaguered Congress yesterday in a programme held in Banamalipur. The
returnees included Radheshyam Saha who has set a record of sorts in party
hopping. Statistical data vary on the numerics of returnees but a few hundred
did return. Upon their return they expressed despair and disappointment over
their experience in BJP over the past one year
and hoped Congress would return to power in Tripura by inflicting a
crushing defeat on the BJP candidates in the upcoming Loksabha elections.
What will ultimately happen to their fate is still unclear
but leaders of the Congress party in Tripura, newly appointed PCC president
Pradyot Kishore, former chief minister Samir Ranjan Barman and former MLA Gopal
Roy also sounded grandiloquent in their optimism over Congress undoing the
history of twenty five years consecutively
and ten years before that out of power . Since joining CPI (M) is
anathema for former or even incumbent Congressmen, their lone option is to
leave BJP in which they had rested hopes for a revival of fortune. In a
significant turnaround the new PCC president Pradyot Kishore declared his first
priority as working for people regardless of racial or caste identity.
