{"id":16109,"date":"2021-09-27T14:50:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T09:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/?p=16109"},"modified":"2021-09-27T15:17:37","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T09:47:37","slug":"bjps-locket-chatterjee-to-join-trinamool-amid-speculations-she-asks-kunal-ghosh-to-focus-on-bhawanipore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/bjps-locket-chatterjee-to-join-trinamool-amid-speculations-she-asks-kunal-ghosh-to-focus-on-bhawanipore\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP\u2019s Locket Chatterjee to join Trinamool? Amid speculations, she asks Kunal Ghosh to \u201cfocus\u201d on Bhawanipore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid rising speculations on the possibility of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Hooghly, Locket Chatterjee, joining the Trinamool Congress, there was an unusual exchange of words between the BJP MP and Trinamool\u2019s Kunal Ghosh on Twitter today.<\/p>\n<p>Ghosh \u201cthanked\u201d BJP\u2019s \u201cstar campaigner\u201d Locket Chatterjee for \u201cnot campaigning at Bhabanipur\u201d. \u201cIn spite of many requests from BJP, you haven\u2019t come,\u201d he wrote on Twitter. He added that he hoped \u201cthose days will return again when you started your political innings.\u201d Locket Chatterjee had started her political career with the Trinamool Congress before joining the BJP.<\/p>\n<p>While Chatterjee did not respond initially, later, she wrote on Twitter that Ghosh should concentrate on \u201censuring that Mamata Banerjee doesn\u2019t lose from Bhabanipur\u201d. To this Ghosh again thanked her for not mentioning the name of the BJP candidate from Bhawanipore where chief minister Mamata Banerjee is contesting the bypolls. The BJP has fielded Priyanka Tibrewal against her.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid rising speculations on the possibility of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Hooghly, Locket Chatterjee, joining the Trinamool Congress, there was&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":3236,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_seo_keywords":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2791,57,582,714,475,49,4115,583,46],"class_list":["post-16109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-bengal-byelection-2021","tag-bjp","tag-cover-story","tag-kunal-ghosh","tag-locket-chatterjee","tag-mamata-banerjee","tag-priyanka-tibrewal","tag-top-story","tag-trinamool-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16111,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16109\/revisions\/16111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}