Agartala: The Trinamool Congress received a serious blow as at least 55 workers, including 15 top leaders of the Tripura state committee, joined the BJP last evening in presence of Minister of state for Railways Rajen Gohin here. Another 15 leaders of the Congress also joined the saffron party. The Trinamool Congress workers who joined BJP include it’s coordination committee chairman and former minister Ratan Chakraborty and senior most member of the party Nitai Choudhury.
After joining the BJP, Chakraborty accused TMC MLA Sudip Roybarman of harming the Mamata Banerjee led party in Tripura. He accused Roybarman and his family, including his father former CM Samir Ranjan Barman, of serving personal interest. “This family is always prioritizing their individual interest at the cost of opposition politics, which has been capitalized by the CPI-M to remain in power.
I am confident whichever party they join it will ruin the prospect of that party,” Chakraborty said. He said, “I had to leave Congress due to them and we brought them in Trinamool less than a year ago. But now this team made us non-entity. Trinamool Congress doesn’t have any chance in Tripura and we feel the BJP is the only alternative to the CPI-M in the next election.”
Chakraborty said of those who left the party at least 15 are state committee members and as many as seven were elected members of TMC in the three-tire panchayat. Two weeks ago the immediate past chief of TMC Surajit Datta had joined the saffron party raising same allegation against the Roybarman group. (UNI)
