"Golden Moment": Former Trinamool MP Dinesh Trivedi Joins BJP Dinesh Trivedi resigned his Rajya Sabha and Trinamool membership on February 12, saying he felt "suffocated" by the violence in West Bengal. Updated: March 06, 2021 3:23 pm IST Dinesh Trivedi only recently quit the Rajya Sabha where he was a Trinamool member. New Delhi: Former Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress MP Dinesh Trivedi today joined the BJP, the latest in a long list of such defections over the past many months. The 70-year-old's change of course comes merely weeks ahead of the West Bengal Assembly polls, the run up to which is already seeing a bitter battle of attrition between the two political parties.