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3 TMC MLAs, several councillors join BJP; many more to follow, claims Kailash Vijayvargiya

Like the elections were held in seven phases in West Bengal, the joinings in BJP will also happen in seven phases. Today was just the first phase, said Kailash Vijayvargiya.

3 TMC MLAs, several councillors join BJP; many more to follow, claims Kailash Vijayvargiya

3 MLAs and more than 50 Councillors from West Bengal join BJP. (Image: Twitter/@BJP4India)

BJP National General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, on Tuesday, announced that three MLAs and 50-60 Councillors of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) have joined the BJP on Tuesday, adding that “such joinings will continue in future also”.

“On Tuesday, two TMC MLAs, more than 50 councillors, and one CPM MLA from West Bengal have joined the BJP at party headquarters in Delhi.

“Like the elections were held in seven phases in West Bengal, the joinings in BJP will also happen in seven phases. Today was just the first phase,” ANI quoted Kailash Vijayvargiya as saying.

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Earlier in the day, Subhrangshu Roy, the TMC MLA from Bijpur in North 24-Parganas district and the son of senior BJP leader Mukul Roy, had joined the saffron party.

Apart from Subhrangshu Roy, at least three other MLAs and several councillors have reached Delhi to join the BJP. It is reported that Gautam Das of Gangarampur and Tusharkanti Bhattacharya of Bishnupur are also likely to join the BJP. Sources say that Sunil Singh, another TMC MLA, would be switching over to the saffron camp.

Arjun Singh, BJP’s newly-elected MP from Barrackpore, who left the TMC after being denied ticket from the Barrackpore constituency, has seemingly played a key role in engineering the defections. MLA Sunil Singh is MP Arjun Singh’s relative.

BJP sources said that besides the MLAs, 18 councillors of Halishahar, 17 of Naihati and 14 of Kanchrapara areas are also likely to join the party.

If it happens, the Trinamool could lose control of all three municipalities. A visibly happy Mukul Roy claimed that the BJP could take control of up to 60 municipalities in the near future.

“I feel in the next two-three months the BJP will wrest 55-60 municipalities in the state,” said Mukul Roy.

Interestingly, Narendra Modi, in an election rally in Serampore, had claimed that 40 MLAs of Mamata Banerjee’s party were in touch with him and many of them would leave the Trinamool Congress after May 23, when Lok Sabha election results were announced.

Kailash Vijayvargiya was appointed the BJP West Bengal leader by part national president Amit Shah.

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