Kolkata, Feb. 12 -- Soon after joining back Congress in Kolkata on Wednesday afternoon, former President Pranab Mukherjee's son Abhijit Mukherjee admitted that joining Trinamool Congress was a "mistake".

Mukherjee is a two-time Congress Lok Sabha member and one-time party legislator from West Bengal.

He also contested as a Congress candidate in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Jangipur constituency in Murshidabad district, which he represented twice.

However, he lost the elections in 2019 by a huge margin, following which he became inactive from politics for quite some time.

However in July 2021, soon after the last West Bengal Assembly elections that year, he joined Trinamool Congress and was then officially accepted in the ruling p...