Didi will be left alone : Amit Shah warns Mamata amid TMC desertions
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Updated: Saturday, December 19, 2020, 23:33 [IST]
Kolkata, Dec 19: Welcoming high-profile Trinamool Congress rebel Suvendu Adhikari, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday claimed there will be more desertions to the BJP from the TMC and that the West Bengal chief minister will be be left alone in her party by the time elections arrive.
Amit Shah ad Mamata Banerjee Why are so many people leaving Trinamool Congress? Because of the misrule, corruption and nepotism of Mamata Banerjee. Didi, this is just the beginning. By the time elections come, you will be left all alone, Amit Shah said at Midnapore rally.
Suvendu Adhikari, 5 other Trinamul MLAs join BJP Shah welcomes Adhikari, others into BJP; says many more will leave TMC Five other Trinamul MLAs join saffron party at mammoth Midnapore rally
Union home minister Amit Shah said there would be more desertions from the Trinamul Congress and that Bengal chief minister would be left alone in her party, his assertions coming on a day he presided over the induction of TMC heavyweight Suvendu Adhikari and several other MLAs into the BJP.
Addressing a party rally at Midnapore, Shah alleged the Mamata Banerjee’s government was steeped in corruption resulting in alienation of the masses. He exuded confidence that the BJP would form the next government in the state (with a 294-membr Assembly) with more than 200 seats.
Updated Dec 19, 2020 | 16:18 IST
Adhikari, a former close aide of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, joined the party along with TMC MP Sunil Mondal, nine sitting MLAs, including five from the state s ruling party at Shah s rally in Midnapore. Suvendu Adhikari joins BJP at Amit Shah s rally | Photo Credit: ANI
Key Highlights
He owed to oust the Mamata Banerjee regime in the 2021 Assembly elections
Adhikari is an influential leader of West Bengal with a mass base
Kolkata: Putting an end to weeks of speculation, former TMC leader and West Bengal political heavyweight Suvendu Adhikari joined the BJP on Saturday in presence of Home Minister Amit Shah.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah waves at his supporters during an election rally ahead of West Bengal Assembly polls 2021, in West Midnapore district, Saturday, December 19, 2020.
In the biggest exodus from the Trinamool Congress in a single day, party heavyweight Suvendu Adhikari and 34 other leaders including five MLAs and
an MP switched over to the BJP in the presence of Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday, setting of churnings as several disgruntled functionaries rallied behind him. Amit Shah taunted TMC supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee by saying she will be left alone by the time assembly elections, due in April-May next year, arrives. Beginning his new inning, Adhikari also lashed out at TMC saying BJP will win Bengal and asked TMC workers to join hands and start a new beginning. Senior leaders of the TMC are also apprehensive that more leaders may leave the party.
At Shah’s Midnapore rally, Suvendu Adhikari joins saffron party BJP will form next government in Bengal, says former TMC heavyweight
Former Trinamul Congress heavyweight Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday switched over to the Bharatiya Janata Party at Union Home Minister’s rally in Bengal’s Midnapore.
Addressing the crowd at Midnapore, Adhikari said that the TMC came into existence because of the saffron party.
“I had first met Amit Shah during the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. When I was down with Covid, my former party did not enquire about my health, while Amit Shah twice enquired about how I am, he said.