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Rajib Banerjee and 4 Other Former Trinamool Leaders Join BJP Ahead of West Bengal Elections
Former TMC leaders Rajib Banerjee, Baishali Dalmiya, Prabir Ghoshal, Rathin Chakraborti and Rudranil with Amit Shah on Saturday.
Former Bengal minister Rajib Banerjee is set to meet Union home minister Amit Shah in Delhi today evening.
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Hours after former West Bengal minister Rajib Banerjee quit the Trinamool Congress, he joined the BJP after a meeting with Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Delhi. Former TMC leaders Rajib Banerjee, Baishali Dalmiya, Prabir Ghoshal, Rathin Chakraborti and Rudranil Ghosh joined BJP today in New Delhi. I am sure their induction will further strengthen BJP’s fight for Sonar Bangla, Shah said in posts on social media.
Ex-West Bengal minister Rajib Banerjee, 5 MLAS join BJP after meeting Amit Shah in Delhi The TMC, which has been facing dissent from a number of leaders ahead of the Assembly election due in April or May this year, said that those who are quitting don t have a long political history File photo of Rajib Banerjee. News18
Kolkata/New Delhi: Former West Bengal minister Rajib Banerjee, who recently quit the Trinamool Congress, joined the BJP in Delhi on Saturday along with a few other leaders of the state s ruling party, after meeting senior BJP leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
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THE TIMES OF INDIA | Jan 30, 2021, 22:59:29 IST
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The five former Trinamool leaders met Amit Shah at his residence in Delhi.
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Five former Trinamool Congress leaders met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi on Saturday after being flown in to join the BJP in the latest round of defections from West Bengal s ruling party ahead of the state elections due in April-May.
Five ex-TMC leaders on their way to Delhi to defect to the BJP
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Kolkata: Ending weeks worth of speculation, the miffed leaders of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), who were slated to defect to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) at Union Home Minister Amit Shah s rally in West Bengal, are visiting Delhi today and will join the saffron camp right at the national capital.
On a special chartered flight sent by Amit Shah, the TMC defectors Rajib Banerjee, Baishali Dalmiya, Prabir Ghoshal, Rathin Chakraborty, five-term civic chief of Ranaghat Partha Sarathi Chatterjee, along with Bengali actor Rudranil Ghosh flew for Delhi along with BJP West Bengal observer Kailash Vijaywargiya and BJP national vice-president Mukul Roy.