TMC leaders want to abandon sinking ship: BJP

May 24, 2019 17:02

West Bengal BJP President Dilip Ghosh on being asked if he is in contact with TMC MPs and MLAs: Even earlier many people were in contact with me, it'll increase going ahead. When there is a possibility that a government could fall, people leave. Who wants to be in a sinking ship?"

The ruling TMC has won 22 out of 42 Lok Sabha constituencies in West Bengal, after surviving a massive scare from the BJP, which made deep inroads into the state.

The Mamata Banerjee-led party had won 34 parliamentary seats in the state in the 2014 general elections.BJP made huge strides in West Bengal by garnering 18 seats, 16 more than it had won in the 2014 polls, thereby breaching the once Left-ruled bastion and now the TMC citadel.

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