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MPs Arjun Singh, Dibyendu Adhikari join BJP

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New Delhi, March 15

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Two sitting parliamentarians from the Trinamool Congress—Barrackpur MP Arjun Singh and Tamluk MP Dibyendu Adhikari—joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday.

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Arjun Singh, who had earlier joined the BJP in 2019 after quitting TMC and defeated the then-TMC candidate on the Barrackpore seat, returned to TMC again in 2022 even as he remained a BJP MP on Parliament record.

He announced that he was leaving the TMC days after being dropped from the TMC’s list of candidates for the Lok Sabha polls.

“After I became the MP from BJP, the way post-poll political violence happened in West Bengal, our area was the worst-hit. I was tolerating atrocities on myself, but to save the workers, I had to keep some distance from the party (BJP) for some days,” Arjun Singh said after joining the party.

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Tamluk MP Dibyendu Adhikari, brother of BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, also joined the BJP.

BJP leaders Dushyant Gautam and Amit Malviya were present as the two MPs joined the BJP.

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