Welcoming Mamata Banerjee’s former cabinet colleague Subhendu Adhikary, Union Home Minister Amit Shah, at a meeting in West Midnapore on Saturday said that Mamata Banerjee will soon be left all alone as most people close to her will be with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
“By the time elections come, you will be left all alone, Didi,” Shah said, adding that leaders were leaving the Trinamool Congress because of corruption and nepotism.
Other than Subhendu Adhikary, 10 MLAs from the Trinamool, Congress and Left parties, one MP another former MP from Trinamool joined the BJP. Including other leaders from the lower tiers, there were about 50 leaders who joined the BJP at Shah’s rally in Midnapore.
Shah said that there were attempts to make “the nephew” the next chief minister of Bengal and Central government funds were not reaching the people because of corruption. “But it is only through the BJP that we can create a shonar Bangla,” Shah said. He added that though Banerjee alleged and accused that the BJP snatched leaders from other political parties, she too had formed her party moving away from the Congress.
Which leaders from Bengal joined the BJP today? Banashree Maiti is Trinamool Congress MLA from Contai North, Tapasi Mondal is Haldia MLA from the Communist Party of India (Marxist), Ashok Dinda is Tamluk MLA from Communist Party of India, Sudip Mukhopadhyay is Congress MLA from Purulia, Biswajit Kundu is Trinamool MLA from Kalna, Saikat Panja is Trinamool MLA from Manteswar, Shilbhadra Dutta is Trinamool MLA from Barrackpore, Dipali Biswas is CPIM MLA from Gajole, Sukra Munda is Trinamool MLA from Nagrakata. Others to join the BJP includes Col Diptangshu Chowdhury, Katrik Pal and several minority leaders including Kabirul Islam, Karam Hussain Khan, Prof. Wahidul Haque among others.
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