‘Queen of hearts’ Mamata will be game-changer in 2024 Lok Sabha polls: TMC MP Shatrughan Sinha | Exclusive
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TMC MP Shatrughan Sinha said in an exclusive interview with India Today that West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee is likely to be the 'real game-changer' in the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
In an exclusive conversation with India Today, newly elected MP Shatrughan Sinha said that West Bengal CM and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee is likely to be the “real game-changer” in the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
Shatrughan Sinha, who won the Asansol Lok Sabha constituency in the bypoll held earlier this month, said, “I am impressed by the queen of hearts Mamata Banerjee. She is a tried and tested leader who is respected by all. We shall try our best to see that she becomes the real game-changer in the 2024 election.”
Earlier in April, actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha beat BJP’s Agnimitra Paul by more than 3 lakh votes to win in Asansol, a constituency in West Bengal that the TMC has never won before.
Speaking on his journey in politics, Shatrughan Sinha told India Today, “I came into politics to fulfil my social obligation. I was influenced by Jayprakash Narayan.”
Further, he said he left the BJP and joined the All India Trinamool Congress because the saffron party had transformed into an autocracy from a democracy.
“Atal Bihari's and LK Advani's BJP was a democratic setup. Today's BJP, which is being run by the prime minister, is an autocracy,” said Shatrughan Sinha, who was a minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee's cabinet.
He added that he had fought his first election because his then mentor LK Advani had told him to.
