In 2020, after Pranab Mukherjee’s death, both his son Abhijit and daughter Sharmistha Mukherjee quit the Congress party. Abhijit left the party in July 2021 to join the TMC after the Mamata Banerjee-led party came to power in the state for the third time in a row.
Sharmistha, however, quit active politics in September 2021. Though she did not join any party, she has, on various occasions, publicly criticised the Congress party.
Lost 2019 Lok Sabha election
Abhijit lost the 2019 Lok Sabha election from the Jangipur seat to TMC candidate Khalilur Rahaman. “For two-and-a-hald years I carried out whatever assignment was given to me by the Congress. But they didn’t give me enough assignments, whatever may be the reason. I was gradually marginalised by a particular person, a particular group…In the meantime, Mamata Didi called me back as I had sought time from her…I met them and they offered me to join them,” he had then told news agency ANI.
For two-and-a-half years I carried out whatever assignment was given to me by the Congress. But they didn’t give me enough assignments, whatever may be the reason.
Abhijit, with a corporate background, entered politics in 2011 when he won the assembly polls in Nalhati constituency of Birbhum district. In 2012, he won the Jangipur Lok Sabha constituency by-election on a Congress ticket, defeating CPM’s Muzaffar Hussain. The seat was vacated by Pranab Mukherjee after he became President.
Abhijit was re-elected to Lok Sabha from Jangipur in the 2014 polls but lost the seat in 2019 to Khalilur Rahaman of Trinamool Congress.
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