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TMC minister joins BJP
West Bengal president of BJP Rahul Sinha announced Thakur's decision to join the party at a press conference here.
Sinha said more TMC leaders will join the BJP in the near future.
"This joining is just the beginning of TMC's collapse," Sinha added.
Manjul Krishna Thakur, who held the refugee, relief and rehabilitation portfolio in West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's cabinet,
told journalists that there were no space for good people in the TMC.
He said the party did not give him opportunity to work for refugees.
"I have sent my resignation letter to the chief minister via fax," he said.
TMC leadership said that Manjul Krishna Thakur have been expelled from the party.
(Reporting and Image by Deepayan Sinha)
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