3 ex-TMC MPs join BJP, get ticket for bypolls
Kolkata, July 10 -- Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, Sushmita Dev and Prakash Chik Baraik, the three former Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders who resigned from the Rajya Sabha in June, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Kolkata on Thursday, and, within hours, were named the saffron party's candidates for the Rajya Sabha bypolls from West Bengal.
The BJP's Central Election Committee announced the names of Dev, Roy and Prakash Chik Baraik as its nominees for the July 24 Rajya Sabha bypolls.
Earlier on Thursday evening, state BJP president Samik Bhattacharya inducted the trio into the party at its Salt Lake headquarters. Asked then whether they would be fielded in the Rajya Sabha bypolls, Bhattacharya had smiled and replied, "Let the speculations c...
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