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Bengal Polls: TMC Loses Hold Over Malda ZP After 5 Sitting MLAs Jump Ship Mar 09, 2021, 15:06 IST
The All India Trinamool Congress is now facing problems as some of the MLAs had quit. Ahead of the West Bengal state poll, five of the sitting MLAs from TMC called it quits after they were not given the tickets. This led to the loss of control over Malda Zilla Parishad.
This now becomes TMC s second-largest single-day migration. Earlier in 2020, Suvendu Adhikari along with 35 TMC leaders, including five MLAs and an MP, made a shift to the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) last year in December.
Express News Service
KOLKATA: Barely 72 hours after the Trinamool Congress announced the full list of candidates fielded in the upcoming Assembly elections, one of the contestants, in a bizarre move, joined the BJP on Monday along with the ruling party’s four other incumbent MLAs, who were denied tickets.
The defection took place at the party’s Hastings election office in south Kolkata.
Sarala Murmu was in the list announced by TMC supremo on Friday last week and was selected for the Habibpur Assembly constituency, reserved for a scheduled tribe candidate, in north Bengal’s Malda district.
Sensing her defeat, Sarala decided to jump ship and join the BJP, sources in the TMC said.