TMC says defections won’t have any impact on polls, hits out at ‘Mir Jafars’ The party labelled such leaders “Mir Jafars”. Mir Jafar was a military commander who aided the British and betrayed Nawab of Bengal Siraj Ud-Daulah during the Battle of Plassey in 1757. His name is now synonymous with treachery. December 21, 2020 4:30:47 am TMC's student wing Trinamool Chhatra Parishad and party MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay organise a rally to counter BJP's attack at Jorasanko in Kolkata on Sunday. (Express Photo) A day after former state minister Suvendu Adhikari and five Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLAs joined the BJP in Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s presence in Medinipur, the ruling party remained defiant and said the recent wave of defections from its ranks to the BJP would not affect it. “Traitors and backstabbers have existed since time immemorial,” it added.