Tennis star Leander Paes on Friday joined the Trinamool Congress in presence of West Bengal chief minister and party chief Mamata Banerjee in Goa. He is the third celebrity, after actress Nafisa Ali and Mrinalini Deshprabhu \u2013 to join Mamata Banerjee\u2019s party.<\/p>\n
Banerjee is in Goa on a visit, and senior leaders of her party have been engaged in various political activities in the state for the past few weeks. Trinamool is looking to gain ground in the state ahead of the Assembly elections, 2022. \u201cTogether, we shall ensure that every single person in this nation sees the Dawn of Democracy that we have been waiting for… ,\u201d Trinamool Congress said as it announced the news on social media.<\/p>\n
Earlier actress Nafisa Ali and Mrinalini Deshprabhu joined the Trinamool Congress in presence of Mamata Banerjee.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are extremely delighted to share that Shri @Leander joined us today in the presence of our Hon\u2019ble Chairperson @MamataOfficial! Together, we shall ensure that every single person in this nation sees the Dawn of Democracy that we have been waiting for since 2014!\u201d the party tweeted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tennis star Leander Paes on Friday joined the Trinamool Congress in presence of West Bengal chief minister and party chief Mamata Banerjee in Goa. He is the third celebrity, after actress Nafisa Ali and Mrinalini Deshprabhu \u2013 to join Mamata Banerjee\u2019s party. Banerjee is in Goa on a visit, and senior leaders of her party […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1236,"featured_media":16253,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[582,5183,49,5184,583,46,5028],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation","8":"tag-cover-story","9":"tag-leander-paes","10":"tag-mamata-banerjee","11":"tag-nafisa-ali","12":"tag-top-story","13":"tag-trinamool-congress","14":"tag-trinamool-in-goa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16252","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=16252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16255,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16252\/revisions\/16255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16252"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=16252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}