Crisis in Trinamool: Banasri Maity becomes fourth MLA to leave party in 48 hours; Jitendra Tiwari 'w- The New Indian Express
Barrackpore MLA Silbhadra Dutta severed ties with the party on Friday morning. Former minister Shyamaprasad Mukherjee, too, has announced that he would leave the TMC and join the BJP. Banerjee Friday night termed the deserters as "baggage" for the party and said it is good that rotten elements are leaving on their own. Banerjee held an internal meeting with a select group of leaders at her residence to take stock of the situation. According to party sources, Banerjee told TMC leaders not to be "worried about the desertions" as the people of the state are with them. "Our party supremo during t...