Some TMC MLAs, councillors to join our party: West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh
New Delhi, may 28 (IBNS): BJP leader from West Bengal Dilip Ghosh has said a section of West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress' MLAs and councillors have reached New Delhi to join the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday.
He did not clearly mention the exact number of people who might join the party.
“I don’t know about the total number of MLAs and councillors who are joining today, but yes, it is true that some of them are in Delhi to join our party in the presence of central leaders. Mukul Roy is leading the team and he is with them in Delhi," Ghosh told News 18.
The BJP West Bengal president told the news channel: "Now our target is ‘5, SN Banerjee Road’, the headquarters of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC). The next target would be Assembly elections in 2021. We have started the T20 match and our target is to get maximum runs in less overs."
Apart from the BJP's landmark victory in the Lok Sabha polls, the party made strong result in West Bengal where it won 18 seats.
The Trinamool Congress clinched 22 seats.
West Bengal is expected to vote in the Assembly polls in 2021.
Narendra Modi will take oath as the PM for a second term on Thursday.
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