Sonali Guha (File photo)
MALDA: After former Bengal deputy speaker Sonali Guha on Saturday, two more Trinamool leaders have expressed interest for “ghar wapsi”.
While Malda zilla parishad member Sarala Murmu said she “realized” her “mistake”, former North Dinajpur MLA Amol Acharya cited the recent harassment of TMC veterans by CBI as the immediate reason for leaving BJP.
Murmu was named the TMC candidate from Habibpur in the assembly election. But she, along with zilla parishad sabhadipati Gour Mandal, joined BJP at the behest of Suvendu Adhikari. After TMC won 8 out of 12 seats in the district, Murmu re-established contact with her old party. “It was a mistake for me to join BJP. Now, when the CM has appealed to defectors to return, I want to come back,” she said on Sunday.
Synopsis
After former Bengal deputy speaker Sonali Guha on Saturday, two more Trinamool leaders have expressed interest for “ghar wapsi”.
PTI
(This story originally appeared in on May 24, 2021)MALDA: After former Bengal deputy speaker Sonali Guha on Saturday, two more Trinamool leaders have expressed interest for “ghar wapsi”.
While Malda zilla parishad member Sarala Murmu said she “realized” her “mistake”, former North Dinajpur MLA Amol Acharya cited the recent harassment of TMC veterans by CBI as the immediate reason for leaving BJP.
Murmu was named the TMC candidate from Habibpur in the assembly election. But she, along with zilla parishad sabhadipati Gour Mandal, joined BJP at the behest of Suvendu Adhikari. After TMC won 8 out of 12 seats in the district, Murmu re-established contact with her old party. “It was a mistake for me to join BJP. Now, when the CM has appealed to defectors to return, I want to come back,” she said on Sunday.
A policeman asks people to wear protective face masks, in Kolkata. (PTI)
KOLKATA: The Covid-19 virus that is doing the rounds in Bengal is increasingly being found to be an indigenous triple-mutation (B.1.618), only the second one identified from India after the double mutant type (B.1.617) reported last month.
The “Bengal strain”, as a scientist has dubbed it, might be more infective, and something that experts find particularly worrying may be capable of escaping a person’s immune surveillance, even if that person was earlier exposed to a virus without this mutation, and even if vaccinated. There has, however, been no research yet to either corroborate or dismiss the fears.