Five Ex-TMC Leaders Including Rajib Banerjee Join BJP in Delhi

Five Trinamool leaders including former state minister Rajib Banerjee, MLAs Prabir Ghosal and Baishali Dalmiya and former Howrah Mayor Rathin Chakraborty joined the BJP on 30 January, Saturday after a meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

PTI quoted BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya as saying, “They have joined the BJP.”

The five TMC leaders were accompanied by former TMC MLA Parthasarathi Chattopadhyay, actor Rudranil Ghosh and BJP national vice-president Mukul Roy to the meeting.

Shah, who was scheduled to be in Kolkata for the weekend to take part in a rally at Howrah, had to cancel his visit where five former Trinamool leaders were supposed to join his party.