December 22, 2024 12:09 (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Mohali building collapse: Death toll rises to 2, many feared trapped for 17 hours | 4-year-old killed after speeding car driven by a teen hits him in Mumbai | PM Modi attends opening ceremony of Arabian Gulf Cup in Kuwait | Jaipur gas tanker crash: Toll touches 14, 30 critical | Arrest warrant against former cricketer Robin Uthappa over 'PF fraud' | PM Modi emplanes for a visit to Kuwait | German Christmas market car attack leaves 2 dead, Saudi Arabian doctor arrested | India, France come together to build world's largest museum in Delhi's Raisina Hill | Canada, US presented no evidence of Indians' involvement in purported criminal acts: Centre informs Parliament amid 'serious allegations' | Delhi Police Crime Branch to investigate FIR against Rahul Gandhi over Parliament tussle

Trinamool Congress MP Anupam Hazra joins BJP ahead of Lok Sabha polls

| @indiablooms | Mar 12, 2019, at 05:24 pm

New Delhi, Mar 12 (UNI/IBNS) Ending days of speculation, suspended Trinamool Congress MP Anupam Hazra on Tuesday joined BJP here in presence of senior party leader Kailash Vijayvargiya.

Hazra, who represents Bolpur SC reserved constituency, is likely to contest from the same seat.

The Trinamool leadership had expelled him in January along with another sitting MP Saumitra Khan.

In 2014, Hazra had defeated Marxist MP Ramchandra Dome by a margin of 2,36,112 votes and most of the votes is said to have come to him owing to the mass appeal of Mamata Banerjee.

Once a communist bastion, Bolpur was once represented by former Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterjee seven times before the constituency was made reserved by delimitation.

According to sources, Hazra was a regular lawmaker to attend the House proceedings and his attendance was 88 per cent.

Congress MLA Dulal Chandra and CPI-M leader Khagen Murmu also joined the saffron Party.

Besides Vijayvargiya, who is BJP incharge of Bengal, former Union Minister Mukul Roy was also present on the occasion. 

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.