BJP’s north Bengal leader, 7 others join TMC

Mukul Roy, TMC leader

In yet another jolt to the BJP, its Alipurduar district president Ganga Prasad Sharma joined the TMC on Monday, as senior leader of the state's ruling party Mukul Roy, who also switched sides two weeks ago, claimed that this was the "beginning of the saffron party's end" in the state.

Seven other BJP leaders from the region, too, followed in Sharma's footsteps and joined the Mamata Banerjee camp.

Roy, addressing a press meet here, said the BJP's rise in the state began with the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, when it managed to bag several seats in north Bengal, and its downfall, too, will start from the region. "This is just a glimpse of what lies ahead... The BJP's fall in the state is imminent," Roy, who was the saffron party's national vice president until recently, underlined.

Meanwhile, the Calcutta High Court on Monday dismissed the West Bengal government's plea for recalling its order that directed the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) to examine all cases of alleged human rights violations in post-poll violence in the state.

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