Bengal Polls 2021
Bengal: Sisir Adhikari joins BJP in Amit Shah's rally
Kolkata/IBNS: Veteran Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)'s Nandigram candidate Suvendu Adhikari's father, Sisir Adhikari, on Sunday joined the saffron camp in presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
Adhikari joined the BJP at a rally of Shah at Egra in West Bengal.
"We were called betrayers, thieves and what not. I joined the BJP to fight for Medinipur," said Adhikari.
TMC chief Mamata Banerjee at a rally in Kanthi, which is the backyard of the Adhikari family, targeted the turncoat without taking any name.
"They used to control Medinipur. No one was able to work because of them. Now there is a free air after the betrayers left the party," said Banerjee, who is the Chief Minister of West Bengal for 10 years.
Suvendu, who is taking on Mamata from Nandigram seat, joined the BJP in Dec 2020.
The Adhikari family members were the trusted soldiers of Mamata during the 2007 Nandigram land movement which catapulted the TMC to capture power in 2011.
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