Sikha Mitra, the widow of former West Bengal Congress president Somen Mitra, returned to the ruling Trinamool Congress on Sunday.
Mitra claimed that though she had resigned as a Trinamool Congress MLA in 2014, she had never officially quit the party.
“My husband was made the state Congress chief but I had taken a break from active politics. I was touched by the warmth and simplicity of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who called me up and requested me to be an active TMC worker. I decided that if I join active politics again, it has to be under her,” she told reporters.
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She used to be a TMC legislator while her husband was a Lok Sabha member of the party. The couple joined the TMC in 2009 and left in 2014.
Somen Mitra died in July last year. Last month, his son, Rohan, resigned from the Pradesh Congress committee (PCC) holding state president Adhir Chowdhury responsible for the rout in the recent assembly polls in which the national party could not win a single seat. Rohan Mitra was a general secretary in the PCC but always had his differences with Chowdhury.
“I never joined the Congress. Only Mamata Banerjee can work for the people. I will be happy to see her playing a leading role in national politics,” Sikha Mitra said on Sunday.
(With ANI inputs)
