In a jolt to the Congress, its lone MLA in West Bengal Assembly, Bayron Biswas, on Monday joined the TMC in the presence of the ruling party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee.
Bayron, a local bidi magnate, had won the Sagardighi seat earlier this year in a by-election, worsting his TMC rival, much to the consternation of the ruling camp.
The list of leaders leaving Congress party is growing. Now, the grand old party lost its lone representative in West Bengal. On May 29, the only Congress
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The results of 2004 Lok Sabha elections were a real surprise especially in the context of West Bengal. The surprise was not in the CPI(M)-led Left Front winning 35 out of 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state, but in Congress emerging as the second .