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BJP’s Krishnanagar Uttar MLA Mukul Roy
KOLKATA: BJP’s Krishnanagar Uttar MLA Mukul Roy’s return to Trinamool Congress has actually worked for his elevation in the West Bengal assembly. Roy was allocated a seat in the front row beside leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari, who had been aggressively arguing for cancellation of Roy’s assembly membership under antidefection law.
Roy, who was initially allotted the 42nd seat in the third row beside BJP chief whip Manoj Tigga and BJP’s Natabari MLA Mihir Goswami on the first day of the budget session, was brought to the front row and allocated the 15th seat beside the leader of opposition.
Bengal: Post-Poll Intimidation Leads to Hundreds of BJP Workers Still Living Away From Home
While BJP s own house is in disarray in Bengal, its grassroots-level workers have been forced to live in party offices or relatives houses face with alleged TMC violence.
The house of BJP worker Ramananda Koyal, at Diamond Harbour block 2. Koyal has alleged his house was ransacked by TMC workers. Photo: By arrangement.
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Kolkata: Giridhari Bagdi, the president of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, the youth wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), for Labpur âAâ mandal committee in Birbhum district, has been living in hiding, in an undisclosed location outside Birbhum, since May 2, when the results of the assembly elections were announced.
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JALPAIGURI: Two Trinamool Congress workers and a BJP supporter were killed since Tuesday night as political clashes were reported from across the state.
Trinamool worker Sahinur Rahman (33), who left home following a call on Tuesday night, was found trussed up and dead at Chilakhana in Natabari, Cooch Behar, on Wednesday, said party leader and former minister Rabindranath Ghosh. The leader accused BJP of murder, a charge denied by the latter. Police are scanning Rahman’s call records for a headway in the case.
At Mathura in Alipurduar, Trinamool booth worker Dipak Roy was attacked with sharp weapons when he was on his way home from a wedding on Tuesday night.
West Bengal: Of 19 Turncoat MLAs Contesting From BJP, 13 Lost
BJP workers had been unhappy that so many new entrants had been given tickets to begin with.
West Bengal BJP office wears a deserted look after party s defeat to TMC in state assembly polls, in Kolkata, Sunday, May 2, 2021. Photo: PTI
Politics10 hours ago
Kolkata: Defecting from the Trinamool Congress (TMC) to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has not been a good decision for most of the stateâs turncoat MLAs, it seems from the election results. Of the 19 sitting MLAs from the TMC, the Left and the Congress who joined the BJP since 2019 and contested on a BJP ticket this time, only five have managed to win.