Another MLA quits TMC to join BJP; voices of discontentment grows louder in TMC
India
Updated: Wednesday, January 20, 2021, 23:00 [IST]
New Delhi, Jan 20: Desertions and dissidence continued to afflict the ruling Trinamool Congress, with another MLA joining the BJP on Wednesday while another elected representative publicly aired his grievances.
Mamata Banerjee
Arindam Bhattacharya, the MLA of Santipur in Nadia district, met the BJP s national general secretary and Bengal minder Kailash Vijayvargiya in New Delhi and joined the saffron camp at the party s national headquarters.
Bhattacharya had won the assembly election on a Congress ticket in 2016 and switched over to the TMC the next year.
Bhattacharya is the legislator of Santipur constituency in West Bengal s Nadia district.
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NEW DELHI: Desertions and dissidence continued to afflict the ruling Trinamool Congress, with another MLA joining the BJP on Wednesday while another elected representative publicly aired his grievances.
Arindam Bhattacharya, the MLA of Santipur in Nadia district, met the BJP s national general secretary and Bengal minder Kailash Vijayvargiya in New Delhi and joined the saffron camp at the party s national headquarters.
Bhattacharya had won the assembly election on a Congress ticket in 2016 and switched over to the TMC the next year.