Sonali’s tweet to Didi: Made a wrong move, take me back

Kolkata: Former Bengal deputy speaker Sonali Guha, who had joined the BJP ahead of the assembly elections after being denied a ticket from Satgachhia, has urged Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee to take her back.
Addressing Banerjee, Guha tweeted an unconditional apology in Bengali on Saturday. She wrote: “I became emotional and made the wrong decision to join another party. Like a fish that cannot live without water, I cannot survive without you, Take me back.” The Trinamool brass hasn’t responded to her appeal yet.
The former Satgachhia MLA, who was seen seated in the front row at a BJP Mahila Morcha meeting addressed by Union minister Smriti Irani in the run-up to the assembly polls and had ruled out her return to Trinamool even after the results, changed tack only recently. Guha said she didn’t fit into BJP’s scheme of things. “They (the BJP brass) wanted me to make a personal attack on Mamata Banerjee, which I refused,” she said.
Guha’s tweet has given momentum to the anticipated “reverse flow” from BJP after the Trinamool scripted a decisive victory in Bengal. Earlier this week, former Basirhat South MLA Dipendu Biswas, who too had left Trinamool after being denied a ticket, ditched the BJP.
Former chairman of Cooch Behar Municipality Bhushan Singh, another turncoat, left BJP on the ground that he didn’t want to be a party to its bid to “spread riots” in the district. Singh said: “I am leaving BJP to protest the arrest of Trinamool ministers amid the pandemic. I am not able to cope with a party that wants to spread riots.”
BJP’s Cooch Behar president Malati Rava Roy retorted: “Bhushan Singh joined our pa-rty just five days ahead of the elections and has now left the party without (formally) informing us. People know how many times he has switched loyalty. I have nothing to add.”
All eyes are now on big names — former minister Rajib Banerjee, former Bidhannagar mayor Sabyasachi Dutta and former Uttarpara MLA Prabir Ghoshal among them. These leaders lost the assembly polls after joining the BJP.