In a major setback to the Mamata Banerjee, two TMC MLAs, including BJP leader Mukul Roy’s son Subhrangshu, and over 50 councillors from West Bengal joined the BJP in New Delhi on Tuesday.
An MLA from CPI(M) also joined the party today.
Two #TMC MLAs and one #CPM MLA from #WestBengal join BJP at party headquarters in #Delhi. More than 50 Councillors also join BJP pic.twitter.com/2we1X2nHmV
— NewsMobile (@NewsMobileIndia) May 28, 2019
Subhranshu Roy from Bijpur, Sunil Singh from Noapara and Barrackpore’s Shilbhadra Dutta were the MLAs who joined the saffron party.
Senior party leaders, including West Bengal party in-charge Kailash Vijayvargiya and Mukul Roy, were present at the party headquarters for the occasion.
“Like the elections were held in seven phases in West Bengal, joinings in BJP will also happen in seven phases. Today was just the first phase,” Vijayvargiya asserted.
.@KailashOnline, BJP National General Secretary on 3 MLAs and more than 50 Councillors from WB joining BJP: Like the elections were held in seven phases in West Bengal, joinings in #BJP will also happen in seven phases. Today was just the first phase. pic.twitter.com/L112sT3ClI
— NewsMobile (@NewsMobileIndia) May 28, 2019
Subhranshu Roy was expelled on May 24, just a day after Lok Sabha election result was announced, for making anti-party comments by praising his father Mukul Roy and saying he single-handedly wrecked the TMC in the state.
The development comes days after BJP broke into the TMC citadel winning 18 seats, 16 seats more than it bagged in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. TMC bagged 22 out of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state. Congress managed to win just two seats, while the Left parties drew a blank.