CALCUTTA: A convoy of up to 30 vehicles headed towards the Midnapore College Ground where the Minister of the Interior of the Union Amit shah He was scheduled to address a mega public meeting on Saturday.
The convoy full of dissident legislators, parliamentarians and others Trinamool Congress The leaders departed for the site at around 12:15 p.m. from the Mecheda guesthouse in East Midnapore.
They started after the former West Bengal Minister of Transport and Irrigation Suvendu Adhikari left his Contai residence for the Midnapore College Ground.
According to sources, at least nine sitting lawmakers, in addition to Suvendu Adhikari, and a Lok Sabha deputy from the ruling Trinamool state Congress, the Left Front and Congress are in the convoy.
Apart from them, many district leaders were also on the list of those who will join the saffron brigade on Saturday afternoon during the big Shah event.
Of the total of nine sitting legislators, at least six are from the Trinamool Congress, the sources said.
Shah, along with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) National Secretary General (in charge of West Bengal) Kailash Vijayvargiya, National Vice President Mukul Roy and BJP State Unit Chairman Dilip Ghosh had lunch at a farmer’s house in the village of Balijuri.
Some of the names likely to change the BJP in Bengal are Trinamool MLA Shilbhadra Dutta from Barackpore, North Contai MLA Banashree Maity, MLA from Kalna Biswajit Kundu, East Burdwan legislator Saikat Panja, Dipali Biswas – an MLA from Gajal, Sukra Munda from Nagrakata and Haldia’s Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) MLA Tapasi Mondal, among many others.
East Burdwan’s Acting Trinamool MP Sunil Mandal is also likely to join the BJP alongside former MP Dasarath Tirke, former Minister Shyamaprasad Mukhopadhyay and former MLA Satyen Ray. Trinamool leaders such as Rama Prasad Giri, Congressional leader Sanmoy Bandopadhyay along with six minority cell leaders are also scheduled to join the BJP in Shah’s presence, the sources said.
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