Ex BJP leader Yashwant Sinha appointed TMC VP ahead of Bengal polls

Former union minister Yashwant Sinha was on Monday appointed vice president of the Trinamool Congress two days after joining the party ahead of the Bengal assembly election scheduled to be held in 8 phases.

He was also made a member of the TMC national working committee. Yashwant Sinha, who was a Cabinet minister under former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, joined the TMC on Saturday.

After joining the TMC, Sinha said the "tipping point" to force him to come back to active party politics was the "attack on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee" at Nandigram.