"Courtesy Call": BJP's Rajib Banerjee Meets Trinamool Leader Amid Rumours Of Return

Former Trinamool leader Rajib Banerjee had joined the BJP only months before the assembly elections.

A day after Mukul Roy joined Trinamool Congress leaving the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), former West Bengal minister Rajib Banerjee, who had joined the BJP only months before the assembly elections, met Trinamool leader Kunal Ghosh today fuelling speculations of return to his former party. Mr Banerjee, who unsuccessfully fought the elections on BJP ticket from Domjur, went to state Trinamool spokesperson Kunal Ghosh's residence in Kolkata where the two had a long meeting which later both described as a "courtesy call". "Please do not try to look into this as something different. I had come to see one of my relatives who is staying in the same locality of Kunalda's. This is nothing but a courtesy call. There was no political talk between us," Mr Banerjee said. After Muku Roy's homecoming, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Friday that "we will consider the case of those who had left the TMC with Mukul for BJP and want to come back."