Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Biswajit Das joined Trinamool Congress on Tuesday. He is MLA of Bagda of North 24 Parganas. Das said that he wants to be a part of development work with party chief Mamata Banerjee. He was earlier with the Trinamool Congress, and had left the party \u201cdue to some misunderstandings\u201d, he said. Das said that there was \u201cno culture of work in the BJP\u201d. He also said that \u201cpeople don\u2019t get drawn to those who don\u2019t speak the same language, they don\u2019t like outsiders.\u201d<\/p>\n
Yesterday, BJP\u2019s Bishnupur MLA Tanmay Ghosh, had joined the Trinamool Congress. Earlier, BJP MLA Mukul Roy \u2013 who was elected from Krishnagar Uttar, joined the Trinamool, leading to a drop in the total seat tally for the party in the recent Assembly polls.<\/p>\n
The party had won 77 seats when results were out on May 5. Later, Santipur and Dinhata MLAs \u2013 Jagannath Sarkar and Nishith Pramanick, resigned as MLAs as they are both MPs and chose to retain the MP seats. Pramanick was later inducted into the Narendra Modi cabinet as a junior minister. Thus, the total number of seats for the BJP has now come down to 72.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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