Four Trinamool Congress MLAs, who have been denied a ticket for the upcoming meeting elections, joined the BJP on Monday. Among those that joined the saffron celebration have been three-time MLA from Singur Rabindranath Bhattacharya, four-time MLA from Satgachia in South 24 Parganas Sonali Guha, Basirhat Dakshin (North 24 Parganas) MLA Dipendu Biswas, and Shibpur MLA Jatu Lahiri. Besides them, TMC’s candidate from Malda’s Habibpur Sarala Murmu and Bengali movie actress Tanushree Chakraborty additionally joined the BJP.
West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh, nationwide vice-president Mukul Roy, Suvendu Adhikari and Locket Chatterjee welcomed the leaders to the saffron camp.
Guha had damaged down in entrance of the media minutes after the discharge of TMC’s candidates’ record because it didn’t characteristic her title. TMC has fielded Mohan Chandra Naskar from Satgachia as an alternative of Guha.
According to sources, she had spoken to BJP chief Mukul Roy after TMC denied her the ticket and since then it was being speculated that she would be part of the saffron celebration. Sonali was thought of as one of many “loyalists” of Mamata Banerjee.
Jatu Lahiri additionally expressed his displeasure on being denied the TMC ticket. “It’s not about me not getting the ticket. Those who joined the party two or three days ago have got tickets. If the party doesn’t need me, it’s time to move on,” he had advised the media after resigning.