New Delhi, April 12 -- Chandra Kumar Bose, grandnephew of Subhas Chandra Bose and a former leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), joined the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Sunday, just days before the West Bengal assembly elections.

He formally entered the ruling party in the presence of state minister Bratya Basu and TMC MP Kirti Azad, and alleged that the BJP engages in "divisive politics" and does not adhere to the ideals of the iconic freedom fighter.

"The BJP is against the Constitution because its one-point agenda is to divide and rule, to divide communities for vote bank politics. The British, their policy was divide and rule. The BJP practices the same policies as the British. They bring religion into politics, a pol...