14 I KAMAL SANDESH I 01-15 JULY, 2019
Trinamool Congress legislator and a dozen
party Councillors joined the Bharatiya Janata
Party on 18 June, 2019. Biswajit Das, the
Trinamool Congress MLA from Bongaon North-West
Bengal, became the sixth legislator to join BJP after
the Lok Sabha election results.
With the 12 councillors switching sides, the control
of Bongaon municipality effectively has gone from
the TMC to the BJP.
Since the Lok Sabha poll results, TMC has lost
control of five civic bodies in West Bengal. These
are Bhatpara, Halisahar, Kanchrapara, Naihati and
Garulia.
Noteworthy, earlier TMC legislator Sunil Singh
and 12 councillors of Garulia municipality joined the
BJP. On May 28, TMC legislator Subhranshu Roy,
Bishnupur’s Congress-turned-TMC MLA Tusharkanti
Bhattacharya and Hemtabad’s Communist Party of
India (Marxist) MLA Debendra Nath Roy joined BJP
camp in New Delhi. On May 29, TMC legislator from
Monirul Islam switched over to the BJP. On June 17,
TMC MLA Sunil Singh quit Bengal’s ruling party and
crossed over to the BJP.
BJP National General Secretary Shri Kailash
Vijayvargiya welcomed the MLA and councillors from
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Four rajya sabha members from tdP join BJP
he Telugu Desam Party received a major jolt
on 20 June, 2019 as four out of its six Rajya
Sabha members switched to the Bharatiya
Janata Party. Former Union Minister YS Chowdary,
CM Ramesh, G Mohan Rao and TG Venkatesh are
the four leaders.
The four MPs submitted a letter to Rajya Sabha
Chairman and Vice-President Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu
seeking that they should be recognized as a separate
group.
In a resolution, they wrote, “Inspired and
encouraged by the impeccable leadership of Shri
Narendra Modi ji and the developmental policies
being pursued by him in the overall interest of the
nation, we have decided to merge with the Bharatiya
Janata Party with immediate effect.”
Welcoming them into the party, BJP Working
President Shri JP Nadda said, “I assure them that our
party believes in politics of positivism, inclusiveness.
We will move forward with Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas
aur Sabka Vishwas.”
The exit of four MPs comes as further bad news
for an already beleaguered TDP, which won only 3 out
of 25 Lok Sabha seats and 23 out of 175 Assembly
seats in Andhra Pradesh in the recently-concluded
elections.