BJP MP and former union minister Babul Supriyo has left politics. He took to Facebook and wrote, “Goodbye. I’m not going to any political party. TMC, Congress, CPI(M) nobody has called me, I’m not going anywhere…One need not be in politics to do social work.”

Few days ago he posted a series of social media posts about his possible retirement from politics. The singer-turned-politician also contested West Bengal Assembly elections in March from Tollygunge but lost it to TMC’s Aroop Biswas.

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Saying goodbye, he wrote, “I am a one-team player! Have always supported one team #MohunBagan – Have been with only one party – BJP West Bengal. That’s it!!”

He was a two-time member of Parliament and was among the 12 ministers dropped from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet on July 7. 

He wrote that he met Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP national president JP Nadda Ji in the last few days and have told them what he felt.

“I will never forget their love and so I can’t go to them, I don’t have the audacity to go to them and say this. I have decided what I will do; I had decided long back so if I go now they may feel am bargaining and when that is not right I don’t want them to have the wrong idea. I only pray they don’t misunderstand me,” he wrote

In BJP-led National Democratic Alliance first term, Supriyo served as a minister of state for urban development, housing and urban poverty alleviation from November 2014 to July 2016. From July 2016, he served as minister of state for heavy industries and public enterprises till May 2019. The singer-turned-politician also served as minister of state for environment.