BJP shuts door, no more mass joinings from TMC: Kailash Vijayvargiya

The Bhartiya Janata Party on Tuesday (February 2) decided to stop mass joinings from the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal. Senior leaders of the party said, “Induction of selected people will be made in the party henceforth, that too after consultations with the local leadership.”

BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya said, “We will not take leaders from different political parties who don’t have a clean image in the society. We don’t want people, facing allegations or are involved in immoral or illegal activities, to join our party.”
 

“Henceforth, mass joinings would not take place. From now on, the joinings would be very selective and that too after scrutiny,” he added.

The BJP is working on a mechanism for leaders and cadres of other parties who are joining the BJP in recent times. The mechanism will ascertain whether they have a good image in the public.
 

Several former TMC leaders who are being probed for corruption have joined the BJP in the last few years.
 

Since the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, 18 MLAs and an MP of the Trinamool Congress, three MLAs each from the CPI(M) and the Congress, and one MLA from the CPI have joined the BJP.