TMC MLA from Santipur joins BJP ahead of WB Assembly elections
Trinamool Congress MLA from West Bengal's Santipur, Arindam Bhattacharya, has joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the Assembly elections in the state this year. Bhattacharya said that the Mamata Banerjee-led party "lacks the vision for West Bengal and the youth". Bhattacharya had won the Assembly election on a Congress ticket in 2016 and joined TMC in 2017.