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'Represented TMC, but worked for us': BJP after defection of MLAs from Trinamool Cong

New Delhi: Weeks after Prime Minister Narendra Modi claimed that 40 legislators from the ruling Trinamool Congress in Bengal were in contact with the BJP and would soon change camp, an exodus was seen here on Tuesday.

A contingent of the party leaders joined the saffron party at the party headquarters in the national capital, where Mukul Roy, a senior BJP leader of the state told presspersons that it was the party's strategy that few Trinamool faces will represent the ruling party during the recent general election but will help BJP in the ground.

"We cannot reveal all of our strategies to you. It was decided earlier during elections that TMC leaders who were in touch with us would represent the TMC but would work for us," Roy claimed during the media briefing.

Two Trinamool MLAs, Mukul Roy's son Subhranshu Roy from Bijpur and Bishnupur's MLA Tushar Kanti Bhattacharya and Devendra Nath Roy CPI-M MLA from Hemtabad, North Dinajpur joined BJP along with 63 TMC counsellors from Kachrapara Municipality, Halisahar Municipality and Naihati Municipality.

"We are glad to announce that now three of the Municipalities are under Bharatiya Janata Party's grip. As 17 counsellors from Kanchrapara municipality out of 24, 17 out of 23 counsellors of Halisahar and 29 out of 31 counsellors from Naihati municipality joined, including the chairpersons and their deputies," Roy added. Meanwhile, the saffron party launched a 'joining campaign' in seven phases like the recent Lok Sabha elections, the West Bengal in charge of BJP and party's general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya said. "From the first week of June, there will more phases of joining," he said.

Sources said that six more MLAs of Trinamool are likely to join BJP on June 1, 2019, after the Prime Minister Narendra Modi will take oath for his second term.

In April, the Prime Minister had said at a rally near Kolkata, "Didi, on 23 May, the day of results, the lotus will bloom everywhere and your MLAs will leave you and run. Even today, Didi, 40 of your MLAs are in contact with me".

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