BJP Bengal MLA Quits To Join TMC; Had Defected to Saffron Party Before Polls

BJP MLA from Bishnupur, Tanmoy Ghosh, joined the TMC in Kolkata. Ghosh had earlier defected from the TMC to the BJP.

Tanmoy Ghosh, a Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from West Bengal, who won the recently concluded West Bengal assembly elections on a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ticket, defected to the Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Monday, 30 August.

Ghosh is the second sitting BJP MLA to have defected to the TMC after the new government was formed early this year. In the election, the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC, defeated the BJP by an overwhelming majority to come to power in the state for a third consecutive term.