Suvendu Adhikari joins saffron party, says BJP will win Bengal, TMC will be defeated

BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday vowed to oust the Mamata Banerjee regime in the 2021 assembly elections in West Bengal, exuding confidence that his new party will form the next government. Adhikari, who joined the BJP at Home Minister Amit Shah's rally, claimed that the TMC came into existence because of the saffron party.

"I had first met Amit Shah during the 2014 Lok Sabha polls... When I was down with COVID, my former party did not enquire about my health, while Amit Shah twice enquired about how I am," he said addressing the rally.

Noting that the BJP believes in nationalism and pluralism, Adhikari alleged that the TMC wants to



divide the state on the lines of "insider" and "outsider".

"Shame on the TMC for such narrow politics," Adhikari said as the crowd roared. "I am being called a traitor by those who themselves (TMC) are traitors. Had the BJP not been there, TMC would have never come into existence. In the next assembly polls, BJP will win Bengal and TMC will be defeated," he said.

A total of 11 MLAs, an MP and a former MP joined BJP in presence of Amit Shah in Bengal on Saturday. The MLAs are Suvendu Adhikari, Tapasi Mondal, Ashoke Dinda, Sudip Mukherjee, Saikat Panja, Shilbhadra Dutta, Dipali Biswas, Sukra Munda, Shyamapda Mukherjee, Biswajit Kundu and Banasri Maity.