West Bengal Assembly elections: Former CPI(M) leader Sankar Ghosh joins BJP ANI | Updated: Mar 13, 2021 12:05 IST
Ghosh was the former CPI(M) Secretariat member for the Darjeeling district and the member of the Board of Administrators at the Siliguri Municipal Corporation.
He had forwarded his resignation on Wednesday to Jiben Sarkar, party secretary revolting against CPI(M) s alleged lack of democracy and he was expelled from CPI(M) for alleged anti-party activities on the same day.
BJP National General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya and Darjeeling MP Raju Bista were present at the function where a BJP flag was handed over to Ghosh.
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