{"id":312703,"date":"2019-05-29T12:41:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T12:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=312703"},"modified":"2019-05-29T12:41:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-29T12:41:30","slug":"another-trinamool-congress-mla-joins-bjp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/another-trinamool-congress-mla-joins-bjp\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Trinamool Congress MLA joins 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-312704 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/bjp-tmc-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"535\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/bjp-tmc-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/bjp-tmc-768x405.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/bjp-tmc-696x367.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/bjp-tmc-796x420.jpg 796w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/05\/bjp-tmc.jpg 811w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In another setback for the Trinamool Congress (TMC), its MLA Monirul Islam on Wednesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Other TMC&#8217; leaders Gadadhar Hazra, Mohammad Asif Iqbal and Nimai Das also joined the saffron party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">They joined the party in the presence of BJP leaders Mukul Roy and Kailash Vijaywargiya.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">BJP Party said in a tweet, \u201cTMC leaders join BJP in presence of Shri @KailashOnline and @MukulR_Official.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">On Tuesday, Two TMC MLAs and over 50 councillors had joined the BJP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">It came weeks after PM Modi had said that 40 MLAs from TMC party were in contact with the BJP and soon join.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today decided not to attend PM Modi\u2019s swearing-in ceremony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">She said, \u201cthe oath-taking ceremony is an august occasion to celebrate democracy, not one that should be devalued by any political party.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another setback for the Trinamool Congress (TMC), its MLA Monirul Islam on Wednesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Other TMC&#8217; leaders Gadadhar Hazra, Mohammad Asif Iqbal and Nimai Das also joined the saffron party. They joined the party in the presence of BJP leaders Mukul Roy and Kailash Vijaywargiya. BJP Party said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":312704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1801],"tags":[453,1486],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312703"}],"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=312703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":312705,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312703\/revisions\/312705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/312704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}