TMC appoints former Union Minister Yashwant Sinha as Vice-Chairman, also involved in National Working Committee

- Decided to join TMC since Didi was attacked

New delhi date. Monday, March 15, 2021

The party has handed over the charge of national vice-president to BJP leader Yashwant Sinha, who joined the Trinamool Congress ahead of the West Bengal elections. He has also been included in the National Working Committee. The former Union Minister joined the TMC on Saturday and lauded party president Mamata Banerjee, calling her a real fighter.

In Atal Bihari Vajpayee's government, Yashwant Sinha was the finance and foreign minister. He went to the TMC office in Kolkata on Saturday to join the party and said he had decided to join the TMC after the attack on Didi. However, the Election Commission has denied that Mamata Banerjee was attacked.

BJP left in 2018

Yashwant Sinha was annoyed with the BJP leadership after 2014. He was always questioning the decisions of the party leadership and the central government. Then in 2018 he left the BJP. Since then, there have been speculations about which party they will join. He has finally joined the TMC ahead of the West Bengal elections. He was one of Atal Bihari Vajpayee's personal aides and Yashwant Sinha, a bureaucrat-turned-politician, remained in the BJP for three decades.