Daijiworld Media Network (SR)

New Delhi, May 29: Issuing a clarification on the widely circulated topic “three West Bengal MLAs, 50 councillors cross over to BJP”, Mamata Banerjee’s party TMC on Wednesday said that only one suspended MLA joined the saffron party, while the others were from Congress and CPI (M). The party’s official twitter handle also alleged BJP for forcing its six councilors at gunpoint to change the party.

In a major setback to Banerjee’s TMC, Mukul Roy’s son Subhrangshu along with two Bengal legislators and 50 Trinamool Congress councillors joined the BJP on Tuesday.

Cautioning the West Bengal Chief Minister, Prime Minister Narendra Modi had previously said at an election rally in Hooghly district that her MLAs would abandon her after the results of the general elections, adding that 40 of them were already in touch with him. Modi said “When the lotus will bloom all over Bengal after May 23, Didi (Banerjee), you will see that your MLAs will also abandon you and run away. Forty of your MLAs are in touch with me even today.”

Subhrangshu, TMC’s Bijapur legislator who was suspended for six years for anti-party comments, claimed that several others from the party will also follow his path soon. Following the suspension he said "Now, I will breathe freely. Many in the TMC feel suffocated."