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Kolkata: Ending months worth of speculation, five of the miffed former leaders of the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) Rajib Banerjee, Rathin Chakraborty, Baishali Dalmiya, Prabir Ghoshal, and Partha Sarathi Chatterjee along with Bengali actor Rudranil Ghosh, met Union Home Minister Amit Shah at his residence on Saturday and defected to the BJP in national capital Delhi.
The individuals were earlier slated to defect to the saffron camp during the Home Minister s rally in West Bengal.
After a 45-minute-long closed-door meeting with Shah, where the Union Home Minister detailed their new responsibilities for the party, the leaders defected to the BJP.
Six Trinamul turncoats, including former minister Rajib Banerjee, joined the BJP at Amit Shah’s residence in Delhi late on Saturday after they took a chartered flight to the capital on the Union home minister’s “orders”.
“We have been handed over the BJP flag and formally inducted into the party by Amit Shah,” said Banerjee.
The others who joined the BJP with him were expelled Trinamul MLA Baishali Dalmia, former mayor of Howrah Rathin Chakraborty, MLA Prabir Ghoshal, former chairman of Ranaghat municipality Parthasarathi Chattopadhyay and actor Rudranil Ghosh.
“I am sure their induction will further strengthen the BJP’s fight for Sonar Bangla,” Shah said.
Former West Bengal minister Rajib Banerjee, who recently quit the Trinamool Congress, joined the BJP in the national capital 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. Banerjee and MLAs Prabir Ghosal and Baishali Dalmiya, who was recently expelled from the TMC, and former Howrah Mayor Rathin Chakraborty, flew to the national capital on a special plane, and met central BJP leaders. They have joined the BJP, party general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya told PTI following the meeting. Former TMC MLA Parthasarathi Chattopadhyay and actor Rudranil Ghosh had also accompanied them on their visit to meet BJP leaders in the national capital.
Disgruntled TMC leaders Rajib Banerjee, Baishali Dalmiya and three others join BJP MLA Parthasarathi Chattopadhyay, actor Rudranil Ghosh and the rebel leaders had flown to New Delhi
Former Bengal minister Rajib Banerjee, who recently quit the Trinamul Congress, joined the BJP in the national capital 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.
Banerjee and MLAs Prabir Ghosal and Baishali Dalmiya, who was recently expelled from the TMC, and former Howrah Mayor Rathin Chakraborty, flew to the national capital on a special plane, and met central BJP leaders.
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