{"id":312672,"date":"2019-05-28T11:48:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T11:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312672"},"modified":"2019-05-28T11:48:37","modified_gmt":"2019-05-28T11:48:37","slug":"west-bengal-2-tmc-mlas-over-50-councillors-join-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/west-bengal-2-tmc-mlas-over-50-councillors-join-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bengal: 2 TMC MLAs, over 50 councillors join BJP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-312673 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/BJP-delhi-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/BJP-delhi-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/BJP-delhi-768x425.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/BJP-delhi-696x385.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/BJP-delhi-759x420.jpg 759w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/BJP-delhi.jpg 829w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Two Trinamool Congress (TMC), one from CPI(M) and over 50 councillors from West Bengal joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cEminent personalities #JoinBJP at BJP HQ in New Delhi,\u201d BJP party said in a tweet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201c3 MLAs and more than 50 Councillors from West Bengal join BJP,\u201d BJP party added<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP National General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya said, &#8220;Three MLAs and over 50 Councillors are joining BJP today. Such joinings will continue in future also.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cLike the elections were held in seven phases in West Bengal, joinings in BJP will also happen in seven phases. Today was just the first phase,\u201d Vijayvargiya added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">TMC MLAs Subhranshu Roy, Tusharkanti Bhattacharjee and CPM MLA Devendra Roy joined BJP. Subhranshu is the son of BJP leader Mukul Roy and was suspended by TMC recently.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This came weeks after PM Modi said that 40 MLAs from TMC party were in contact with the BJP and soon join.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Trinamool Congress (TMC), one from CPI(M) and over 50 councillors from West Bengal joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday. \u201cEminent personalities #JoinBJP at BJP HQ in New Delhi,\u201d BJP party said in a tweet. \u201c3 MLAs and more than 50 Councillors from West Bengal join BJP,\u201d BJP party added BJP National General [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,1801],"tags":[453,1486],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312674,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312672\/revisions\/312674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}