Kolkata, Oct. 7 -- BJP state secretary and the former mayor of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) Sabyasachi Dutta, who had quit the TMC to join the saffron camp two years ago, returned to the Mamata Banerjee-led party on Thursday.

He claimed that the saffron party runs a "Taliban-style government" wherever it is in power.

Dutta was welcomed into the fold by TMC secretary-general and cabinet minister Partha Chatterjee at his chamber in the Assembly, in the presence of other senior leaders.

"We inducted Dutta in the party, as per his request, on the very day our leader Mamata Banerjee took oath as an MLA. She has approved Dutta's induction into the party," Chatterjee said.

The new inductee, on his part, asserted that he would humb...