Justice Abhijit Gangopadhyay, who resigned as a judge of Calcutta High Court on Tuesday morning, announced his plan to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

“Maybe on 7th (March) in the afternoon. There is a tentative program, when I will join BJP,” the former Calcutta high court judge said at a press conference.

Gangopadhyay sent his resignation letter earlier today to President Droupadi Murmu with copies to Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and the Chief Justice of the Calcutta high court TS Sivagnanam.

The resignation came into effect immediately under Article 217 (1) (a) of the Constitution.

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He had hinted at joining politics, saying it was his conscience calling.

“My soul tells me that my tenure as a judge is over and it is time to enter a bigger sphere and serve people. I will put in my papers on Tuesday,” he told the media on Sunday.

Before finally announcing his plan to join the BJP, Justice Gangopadhyay had said that he may join any of the Left parties, Congress or Bharatiya Janata Party and even contest the coming Lok Sabha elections.

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Speculations have been rife that he will contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls from Bengal’s Tamluk constituency on a BJP ticket. The Tamluk seat has been a bastion of the ruling Trinamool Congress in recent elections; the party has held it since the 2009 election.

“For the last two or more years I have been dealing with some matters, especially education matters, regarding which a huge corruption has been discovered and unearthed. A large number of important persons in the education sector of this government are now languishing in jail, under trial,” Gangopadhyay told ANI earlier today.