Abhijit Ganguly announced on Tuesday that he is joining the Bharatiya Janata Party, merely a few hours after he resigned as a judge of the Calcutta High Court.
He sent his resignation letter to President Droupadi Murmu with copies to Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud and the Chief Justice of the Calcutta HC TS Sivagnanam, news agency PTI reported.
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“Maybe on 7th (March) in the afternoon. There is a tentative program, when I will join BJP,” Gangopadhyay said while addressing mediapersons in Kolkata.
“The party will decide whether there will be candidates in the Lok Sabha or not. The ruling party of the state has inspired me to enter politics,” Ganguly said.
There has been speculation that Ganguly will contest the forthcoming Lok Sabha polls from Bengal’s Tamluk constituency on a Bharatiya Janata Party ticket. The Tamluk seat has been a bastion of the ruling Trinamool Congress in recent elections; the party has held it since the 2009 election.
His rulings on various education-related issues in the state stirred political debates. Ganguly had expressed his desire to serve the public, stating that it was his conscience calling.
“For the last two or more years I have been dealing with some matters, especially education matters, regarding which a huge corruption has been discovered and unearthed. A large number of important persons in the education sector of this government are now languishing in jail, under trial,” he said while speaking to ANI on Tuesday.
He said the reason for him quitting the job was a call of his conscience and added he would work towards the welfare of the public.
Earlier in February, the Supreme Court tagged Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee’s plea to issue directions to take action against Justice Abhijit Ganguly for his alleged “continuous politically motivated interviews” in connection with sub-judice cases.
(With inputs from ANI)