Mumbai: Senior TMC MLA and former Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation Mayor Sabyasachi Dutta on Tuesday joined BJP in the presence of Home Minister Amit Shah.
Sabyasachi was handed over the party flag by BJP state president Dilip Ghosh, at a seminar on NCR president by Amit Shah.
Sabyasachi Dutta Said, “For me, the country and its interest is much bigger than personal interest or party’s interest. India has achieved new heights under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.”
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He said on Monday, “I will be joining BJP tomorrow at Netaji Indoor Stadium in Kolkata in the presence of Union home minister Amit Shah.”
Dutta who was loggerheads with the TMC leadership, resigned from his post as mayor of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation in July this year.
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In the Lok Sabha election this year, the BJP made deep inroads in West Bengal. Winning 18 out of 42 parliamentary constituencies while the TMC managed just 22, 12 less than it had won in the 2014 polls.
Since then, several TMC leaders including Biswajit Das Tusharkanti Bhattacharya, Monirul Islam and Sunil Singh have joined the BJP.
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