Hours after resigning from Calcutta HC, Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay says he will join BJP

Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay on Tuesday announced that he will be joining the Bharatiya Janata Party, hours after he resigned as a judge of the Calcutta High Court, reported ANI. He is expected to be inducted into the party on Thursday.

Gangopadhyay submitted his resignation to President Droupadi Murmu, with copies sent to Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court TS Sivagnanam, PTI reported, quoting unidentified persons.

Gangopadhyay had announced his decision to quit the judiciary and join politics on Sunday.

“I am not telling you today which party I will begin with,” he said on Sunday. “I want to first finish the little work that is still left in court.”

“We have been saying for long that [Gangopadhyay] is a political party worker,” Trinamool Congress spokesperson Debangshu Bhattacharya said on Sunday. The Congress and the BJP, on the other hand, welcomed move, opening their doors to him.

Gangopadhyay had recently accused a fellow judge in the Calcutta High Court of acting in the interest of a political party in West Bengal.

On January 24, Gangopadhyay had ordered an inquiry by the Central Bureau of Investigation into alleged irregularities in admissions to state-run medical colleges in West Bengal, even though the petitioner had not made such a demand.

Later that day, the Trinamool Congress...

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