Pranab Mukherjee's Son Dispels Rumours Of Joining Trinamool

TV channels and a few newspapers had reported that Abhijit Mukherjee, former MP from Jangipur, would join the Trinamool Congress today.

Dispelling rumours, Late President Pranab Mukherjee's son, Abhijit Mukherjee, today made it clear that he is not leaving the Congress unlike his friend Jitin Prasada. Television channels and a few newspapers had reported that he would be joining the Trinamool Congress today. "I remain in the Congress and reports that I am joining Trinamool or any other party are not correct," Mr Mukherjee, a former Lok Sabha MP and Congress Campaign Committee chairman during the assembly elections, told the PTI over phone. Mr Mukherjee had good relations with Jitin Prasada, who recently joined the BJP, when they were colleagues in the Congress Parliamentary Party, and the Late President was also known to be fond of him and his father Jitendra Prasada.