The ghar wapsi, or homecoming, of Mukul Roy is part of the Trinamool Congress' strategy to strike while the iron is hot and demolish the BJP in Bengal, where it still has 18 Lok Sabha MPs, ahead of the 2024 election
Shah s masterstroke: 5 Trinamool leaders join BJP even as minister defers visit
Sat, Jan 30 2021 10:47:12 PM
New Delhi, Jan 30 (IANS): Home Minister Amit Shah s visit to West Bengal may have been postponed, but his masterstroke sitting in New Delhi has once again taken Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee by surprise.
On Saturday, five leaders from the state joined the BJP in the presence of Home Minister Amit Shah including three rebel Trinamool Congress MLAs. The five leaders who came in from Kolkata on a special flight, will reportedly share the stage at Smriti Irani s rally in Howrah on Sunday.
Home Minister Amit Shah was to visit West Bengal on January 30 and 31. Five leaders, including Rajib Banerjee, who resigned as minister from the Trinamool government, were scheduled to join the BJP during the visit. However, in view of the blast in the Capital and the farmers agitation, the trip had to be postponed. Nevertheless, it had no impact on the plans of the disgruntled Trinamoo