Former Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha MPs Sushmita Dev, Sukhendu Sekhar Ray and Prakash Chik Baraik joined the BJP in Kolkata. State BJP president Samik Bhattacharya welcomed the leaders, saying their experience would strengthen the party in West Bengal
Bengal BJP chief Samik Bhattacharya attacked the TMC government, calling it a “living fossil” surviving on borrowed time. He alleged collapse of law and order, economic decline and political violence, while expressing confidence that BJP will win the upcoming elections
