Another BJP MP joins Trinamool Congress-blow the BJP

By Our Special Correspondent

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) suffered a blow in Bengal on Sunday when party MP Arjun Singh returned to the Trinamool Congress (TMC) after 38 months.

Arjun, whose repeated attacks joining West Bengal CM since joining the BJP had drawn sharp the Trinamool Congress was handed the TMC flag by Abishek Banerjee on Sunday.

The Lok Sabha member from Barrackpore in North 24 Parganas district and vice-president of BJP’s Bengal state committee joined the party in the presence of TMC’s National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee at his Camac Street office in Kolkata.

The TMC uploaded photos of Singh’s joining on social media at 5.45 pm but Banerjee did not appear at the press conference that followed, which was seen as a marked departure from the norm.

After joining the TMC, Singh said: “The way Trinamool Congress is working on the development of Bengal is worth appreciating. I am from the jute mill area and the people there have been suffering because of the Centre’s unjust policies.

Last year BJP’s Asansol MP Babul Supriyo resigned from the post after joining the TMC. In the by poll, the TMC defeated the BJP and reduced its share in the state’s Lok Sabha to 17.