West Bengal: TMC defection hands Congress civic body

JALPAIGURI: Trinamool mislaid power of Mekhliganj municipality successful Cooch Behar aft its chairman, who defected to Congress connected Friday, said six councillors would travel him into Congress.

This volition beryllium the archetypal civic assemblage to beryllium managed by Congress since the alteration of govt successful West Bengal.Chairman Prabhat Patani received the enactment emblem from authorities Congress president Shubhankar Sarkar astatine the Pradesh Congress bureau successful Kolkata, successful the beingness of Congress person Debaprasad Roy. Following his induction, Patani said: “I joined Congress astatine their Kolkata office. When I instrumentality to Mekhliganj, six much councillors volition formally articulation the party.”Out of six municipalities successful Cooch Behar, Mekhliganj consists of 9 seats, each of which were primitively won connected TMC tickets. Before the assembly elections, the councillor from Ward No. 4 near TMC and joined BJP. About 18 months ago, councillors removed the erstwhile president and appointed Patani to the post. With Patani and the six councillors, Congress has secured a majority, transferring power of the municipality.

One councillor said helium would enactment with TMC.Speaking connected the development, Roy said individuals who aligned with Congress ideology had antecedently joined Trinamool owed to inducement oregon pressure. He added that these individuals, present facing an ideological crisis, were returning to Congress. Patani said, “It is nary longer imaginable to enactment successful TMC due to the fact that of its interior conflict. I joined Congress to guarantee development... and to support the interests of the public.

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