Ready to contest against Mamata : Sovan Chatterjee

August 20, 2019 17:42

Sovan Chatterjee, the TMC leader who joined BJP recently, Tuesday said that he is ready to contest against West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in the next assembly polls if the saffron party wanted it. He dismissed allegations that he had switched over to the saffron camp to save himself from CBI interrogations into the Narada scam.

Chatterjee, who was once a trusted lieutenant of the TMC supremo, had in the past been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate and the CBI in the Narada scam.

"When I was in TMC, I was a loyal soldier of that party. Now I have joined the BJP and will be its loyal soldier. I will do whatever my party asks me to do. If they ask me to contest against Mamata Banerjee in next election I will do so," he said at his first press conference at the state BJP headquarters. Chatterjee and his close aide Baisakhi Banerjee was felicitated by West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh at a function here on Tuesday.

Banerjee was the president of the Trinamool Congress Professors cell who had joined the saffron party along with him on August 14 in New Delhi. -- PTI

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