A number of Trinamool Congress MLAs and leaders, who were denied a ticket for the upcoming assembly elections, joined the BJP on Monday.
The list includes three-time MLA from Singur Rabindranath Bhattacharya, TMC’s candidate from Malda’s Habibpur Sarala Murmu, four-time MLA from Satgachia in South 24 Parganas Sonali Guha, Basirhat Dakshin (North 24 Parganas) MLA Dipendu Biswas, Shibpur MLA Jatu Lahiri. Bengali film actress Tanushree Chakraborty, too, joined the saffron party.
West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh, national vice-president Mukul Roy, Suvendu Adhikari, and Locket Chatterjee welcomed the leaders to the saffron camp.
M K Stalin-led DMK Monday signed the seat-sharing agreement with CPI(M) and allotted them six seats for the upcoming polls in Tamil Nadu.
The deal was signed by DMK president MK Stalin and CPI(M) state secretary K Balakrishnan at the DMK headquarters in Chennai. Capping off the seat-sharing, DMK has allotted 54 seats to its allies.
Congress has received 25 seats, other allies VCK, CPI, CPI(M), MDMK have received 6 each.
Surjitt Sahani
