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Another TMC MLA, Jitendra Tiwari joins BJP ahead of Bengal polls 2021.
Amid an ongoing exodus from the ruling Trinamool Congress ahead of the West Bengal assembly elections, two-time party MLA from Pandabeswar in
Paschim Barddhaman district and former Asansol mayor, Jitendra Tiwari, joined the BJP on Tuesday.
Tiwari, who had rebelled against the TMC leadership but had mellowed down after the BJP declined to induct him into the party in December last year, joined the saffron camp in the presence of party state chief Dilip Ghosh at a programme in Sreerampur in Hooghly district. Want to work for development
Assembly Elections News: Tiwari, who had rebelled against the TMC leadership but had mellowed down after the BJP declined to induct him into the party in December last year, j
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Tiwari is a two-time MLA from Pandabeswar in Paschim Barddhaman district
He had rebelled against the TMC leadership in December
New Delhi: In yet another setback to the Trinamool Congress party in West Bengal, party MLA Jitendra Tiwari on Tuesday (March 1) joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.
He joined BJP in the presence of party state chief Dilip Ghosh at a programme in Sreerampur in Hooghly district. I have joined the BJP as I want to work for the development of the state. In TMC, it was no longer possible to work for the party, Tiwari was quoted as saying by PTI.
Read more about Trinamool Congress MLA Jitendra Tiwari joins BJP ahead of polls on Business Standard. Two-time party MLA from Pandabeswar in Paschim Barddhaman district and former Asansol mayor, Jitendra Tiwari, joined the BJP