BJP’s North Bengal Leader, Seven Others Join Trinamool Congress

In yet another jolt to the BJP, the party's 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 BJP's end" in the state.

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

Mr Roy, addressing a press meet, 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.