All’s Not Well In Mamata’s ‘Paradise’: Sitting TMC Lok Sabha MP Saumitra Khan Joins BJP

Saumitra Khan, Trinamool Congress Lok Sabha MP from Bishnupur in West Bengal joined the BJP on Wednesday (9 January), reports Indian Express.

Khan is reportedly the first Lok Sabha MP to leave Trinamool Congress and join the BJP. Mukul Roy, a Rajya Sabha MP from TMC had joined the BJP in 2017.

Khan slammed the Mamata Banerjee government of promoting syndicate raj and police raj in Bengal and especially the Bankura district.

"We get reports of murders and bombings across the state. Elections in the rest of the country are held peacefully without a single incident of killing." Khan was quoted saying.

"Even during the panchayat polls, people are being killed,” alleged Khan, when asked for his reasons to leave the TMC.

When asked about joining BJP he said that, "I want to follow the footsteps of Narendra Modi and his policy of Sabka Sath Sabka Vikas,”.

However, TMC has responded by claiming that party chief Mamata Banerjee was not happy with his performance as an MP. Khan was reportedly asked to improve his performance at one of the core committee meetings and the partly had also decided not to field him in the 2019 elections.