Barely a few weeks before the West Bengal Assembly elections, Trinamool Congress legislator from Pandabeswar in West Burdwan district and former Asansol Municipal Corporation mayor Jitendra Tiwari on Tuesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Tuesday.
Reacting to the development, the TMC said it is a “good riddance”.
Tiwari, who had rebelled against the TMC leadership but had mellowed down after the BJP declined to induct him into the party in December last year, joined the saffron camp in the presence of party state chief Dilip Ghosh at a programme in Sreerampur in Hooghly district.
“I have decided to join the BJP as I want to work for the development of my region. It was getting more and more difficult to work in the Trinamool Congress,” Tiwari said at a rally in Hooghly’s Sreerampore after joining the BJP.
Union minister and Asansol MP Babul Supriyo, who had opposed Tiwari’s entry into the party in December last year, said he couldn’t oppose if someone is…