Denied Price ticket, Trinamool Minister Bachchu Hansda, MLA Gouri Sankar Dutta Sign up for BJP
Bachchu Hansda joined the BJP on Wednesday.
Kolkata:
West Bengal minister Bachchu Hansda and Tehatta MLA Gouri Sankar Dutta joined the BJP on Wednesday after being denied nominations for the meeting polls via the Trinamool Congress.
Mr Hansda, the Minister of State for North Bengal Building, joined the BJP in presence of its state president Dilip Ghosh.
He’s a two-time MLA from the Tapan seat within the Dakshin Dinajpur district.
Mr Dutta, the MLA from Tehatta in Nadia, is a veteran flesh presser. He additionally converted to the BJP as defections persisted to rock the ruling Trinamool Congress weeks forward of the high-stakes election.
But even so, Bengali actor Bonny Sengupta additionally joined the BJP. His shut pal and actor Koushani Mukherjee just lately joined the TMC and is a candidate from the Krishnanagar Uttar seat.
TMC MP Pratima Mandal’s more youthful sister Jayanti additionally joined the BJP.
Councillors of quite a lot of municipalities and district-level leaders of TMC additionally switched facets with Dilip Ghosh handing them the party flag.
Previous this week, 5 TMC legislators, together with four-time Satgachia MLA Sonali Guha and 89-year-old Singur MLA Rabindranath Bhattacharya, had converted to the BJP when they have been dropped via the ruling party from its candidate checklist.
A complete of 26 TMC MLAs and two MPs have converted to the BJP for the reason that 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
On the other hand, apart from for the previous state ministers Suvendu Adhikari and Rajib Banerjee, and Rajya Sabha MP Dinesh Trivedi, none of them gave up their memberships of meeting or Parliament.
