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Kolkata, March 8: Jay Prakash Majumdar joined the Trinamool Congress on Tuesday after being suspended from the Bharatiya Janata Party in January. During a meeting at Nazrul Mancha in Kolkata, Jay Prakash Majumdar was formally inducted into the TMC.
West Bengal | Suspended BJP leader Jay Prakash Majumdar joins Trinamool Congress, in the presence of CM Mamata Banerjee, in Kolkata pic.twitter.com/mWZBOk36No
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The latest development comes only a day after BJP MP Locket Chatterjee met with suspended BJP officials Jay Prakash Majumdar and Ritesh Tiwari, as well as leaders like Sayantan Basu and Raju Banerjee, who are known to be dissatisfied with the party’s leadership.
Until recently, Jay Prakash Majumdar was the West Bengal BJP’s spokesperson. After leaving the Congress in 2014, he joined the BJP. He was expelled from the BJP in January of this year for breaking party rules.
Jay Prakash Majumdar had criticised the saffron party’s central leadership after his suspension, accusing them of ignoring the basic concerns and abandoning the workers in their hour of need.
“During the Bengal poll, I was given the task of communicating the pulse of the state to the central leadership. However, some central leaders were trying to put down the Bengal brigade of the party. I told them it was not right,” Majumdar said.
“Everyone knows what happened right after the election results were declared. After 12 PM on May 2 [2021], Delhi leaders were desperately looking for returned tickets to Delhi. Meanwhile, many BJP workers were being attacked across Bengal and no prominent leader was there to stand beside them,” he further added.
