India, Feb. 12 -- Abhijit Mukherjee, son of India's former President Pranab Mukherjee, returned to the Congress on Wednesday, ending a four-year stint with West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), which he joined in 2021.

Congress general secretary Ghulam Ahmed Mir, who is in charge of the party's Bengal unit, gave the former Lok Sabha MP a membership of the Congress at the party headquarters in Kolkata in the presence of state leaders.

"I should not have left the Congress. I apologise. Only the Congress works for people from all castes and religions. This is like my second birth in politics," Mukherjee said at the brief event.

"The current Indian political scenario is represented by two opposing ideologies. One divides people an...