"I apologise to Mamata Banerjee, Abhishek Banerjee and all the people for joining the BJP. I am ashamed and feel guilty to join the BJP. Whatever responsibility the party (Trinamul) gives me, I with all sincerity perform the task,"
"She is going to win by a huge margin in Bhabanipur. It would have been the right gesture if the BJP had also stayed away from the election. They should not have fielded any candidate against her,"
Sources in the BJP claim that it is only to be a matter of time before he is expelled from the party. The immediate reason, sources said, was his meeting with TMC’s national General Secretary, Abhishek Banerjee, at the latter's South Kolkata office on Saturday evening.
Already a large number of BJP supporters who have joined the party before the Assembly polls have returned to the Trinamul Congress and joined the party in the presence of Anubrata Mondal in Birbhum.
Rajib Banerjee wondered how Mamata Banerjee was allowed to host Tejashwi Yadav at Nabanna after the schedule of assembly polls had been announced.
Adhikari and Banerjee were confronted by Trinamul workers with black flags at Padmapukur area on their way to the meeting in Baruipur. However, a fracas was averted as two former ministers reached the meeting without predicament.
As part of her party’s bid to regain her party base she lost in the region in the last Lok Sabha elections, Mamata Banerjee today addressed a rally on the Alipurduar Parade Ground. Party leaders and workers from three districts of Jalpaiguri, Alipurduar and Cooch Behar attended the same.
The incident took place at Padmapukur area at Baruipur when the duo was on its way to attend a mega BJP rally.
Rajib Banerjee started his speech with a sharp attack on the TMC for calling him a "traitor" and claimed that he would bring big businesses to West Bengal.
Alongwith Rajib Banerjee, Vaishali Dalmiya, Prabir Ghoshal, Rathin Chakraborty and Parthasarathi Chattopadhyay will also travel to the national capital.
