{"id":330664,"date":"2021-01-31T04:29:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-31T04:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=330664"},"modified":"2021-01-31T04:31:03","modified_gmt":"2021-01-31T04:31:03","slug":"five-former-tmc-leaders-join-bjp-ahead-of-west-bengal-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/five-former-tmc-leaders-join-bjp-ahead-of-west-bengal-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Five former TMC leaders join BJP ahead of West Bengal polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-330666 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/amit-shah-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"914\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/amit-shah-1.jpg 914w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/amit-shah-1-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/amit-shah-1-768x406.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/amit-shah-1-696x368.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2021\/01\/amit-shah-1-795x420.jpg 795w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 914px) 100vw, 914px\" \/>Five former Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in New Delhi after meeting Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The leaders include Rajib Banerjee, Baishali Dalmiya, Prabir Ghoshal, Rathin Chakraborti and Rudranil Ghosh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cFormer TMC leaders Mr. Rajib Banerjee, Ms. Baishali Dalmiya, Mr. Prabir Ghoshal, Mr. Rathin Chakraborti and Mr. Rudranil Ghosh joined BJP today in New Delhi,\u201d Amit Shah tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI am sure their induction will further strengthen BJP\u2019s fight for Sonar Bangla,\u201d Shah added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rajib Banerjee said, \u201cStarting a new journey for a better Bengal.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Suvendu Adhikari who recently joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) welcomed all former TMC leaders into the saffron party.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cHeartiest WELCOME to former @AITCofficial leaders Mr. Rajib Banerjee, Ms. Baishali Dalmiya, Mr. Prabir Ghoshal, Mr. Rathin Chakraborti, and Mr. Rudranil Ghosh who joined @BJP4India today in the presence of Shri @AmitShah Ji, Shri @KailashOnline Ji, and Shri @MukulR_Official Ji,\u201d Adhikari tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cNow that they have exited the &#8220;Private Company&#8221; I am sure they will enjoy working in a free and democratic atmosphere; where all Karyakartas work as one and everyone is honoured and respected. It&#8217;s a pleasure to have them on our side as we continue our fight for #AmarSonarBangla,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five former Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in New Delhi after meeting Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday. The leaders include Rajib Banerjee, Baishali Dalmiya, Prabir Ghoshal, Rathin Chakraborti and Rudranil Ghosh. \u201cFormer TMC leaders Mr. Rajib Banerjee, Ms. Baishali Dalmiya, Mr. Prabir Ghoshal, Mr. Rathin Chakraborti and Mr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":330666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1961,2089,2009,1801,2014,2917],"tags":[1194,429,1486,411],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330664"}],"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=330664"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330669,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330664\/revisions\/330669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/330666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}