New Delhi, June 9 -- Union Minister CR Patil on Tuesday said that the rebel TMC MPs felt unrepresented and pressurised in the party, adding that they wish to separate after releasing the lack of public support for the former West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led party.

Speaking with ANI, Patil said that the 20 TMC MPs who wish to defect from the party want to join the BJP due to its developmental and futuristic ideology and the trust of the public.

"The elected MPs there also feel that public opinion is against the TMC, and that is why they, too, have distanced themselves from the party at the right time. They have separated themselves from there. Even though they were associated with them for so many years, they were unable to...