India, Jan. 28 -- Aruna Mardi, the wife of West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party's two-time Lok Sabha MP and state tribal front president Khagen Murmu, joined the ruling Trinamool Congress on Wednesday, education minister Bratya Basu said.

"Aruna Mardi played a key role in campaigning for her husband. Both were earlier in the CPI(M). As our national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said a few days ago, many are willing to join TMC. You will see more coming as we approach the Assembly polls," Basu said at the TMC headquarters in Kolkata after handing the party flag to Mardi.

Khagen Murmu won the unreserved Malda North seat in Malda district in 2019 and 2024, securing more than 0.5 million votes, which kept him ahead of his nearest TMC ri...