Former Union Finance and External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha on Saturday, March 13, 2021 joined the Trinamool Congress weeks ahead of the West Bengal Assembly elections.
Days before joining the TMC, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) veteran Yashwant Sinha criticised his former party over the alleged attack on Banerjee. “Shame on BJP. Instead of sympathising with Mamata injured in an attack they are making fun of it,” he tweeted on Wednesday. “The battle for Bengal is the battle for India. The voters in Bengal will vote for the future of India in this election,” he also wrote on Twitter on Thursday.
“The strength of democracy lies in the strength of the institutions of democracy. All these institutions including the judiciary have become weak now,” he said.
Taking a swipe at the BJP, the former Union minister said that the aim of the ruling party seems to be to win elections somehow.
“BJP during Atal Ji’s time believed in consensus but today’s government believes in crushing and conquering. Akalis, BJD have left the BJP. Today, who is standing with BJP?” he asked.
Sinha quit the BJP amid differences with the party’s leadership in 2018. He served as the Union finance minister twice – once in the Chandra Sekhar cabinet in 1990 and then again under Vajpayee. He was also the foreign minister in the Vajpayee cabinet. His son Jayant Sinha is a BJP lawmaker and represents Hazaribagh in Jharkhand.
