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West Bengal: Fifteen theatre personalities join TMC
Kolkata: Fifteen theatre personalities from West Bengal joined the Trinamool Congress on Friday, months before the state votes to elect a new assembly.
They joined the party in the presence of Bratya Basu, West Bengal Minister in-charge of Science, Technology and Bio-technology and Arpita Ghosh, Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha at Trinamool Bhavan here.
The 15 theatre personalities are Gautam Mukherjee, Murari Mukherjee, Bijoy Mukherjee, Anish Ghosh, Sekhar Samaddar, Ashish Chatterjee, Indrajit Chakraborty, Avi Chakraborty, Debashish Dutta, Atanu Sarkar, Rakesh Ghosh, Bhargonath Bhattacharya, Surajit Sinha, Rudraprasad Chakraborty, Premangshu Roy.
The developments happened on a day when former MLA from West Bengal’s Domjur, Rajib Banerjee, resigned as the Trinamool Congress member.
He has sent his resignation to Trinamool supremo Mamata Banerjee and party‘s state president Subrata Bakshi.
Earlier in the day, he had resigned as the lawmaker.
Banerjee, who was seen coming out of the assembly with his party supremo Mamata Banerjee's portrait, earlier said in the day, “I have officially resigned as the MLA today. I thank the Speaker for cooperating with me for the last 10 years."
"I also thank my party supremo Mamata Banerjee for giving me an opportunity to become an MLA. She is like a mother-figure to me," he said.
Responding to a question on whether he would switch to the BJP, Banerjee, who had resigned as the Forest Minister of West Bengal a week ago, said, "Let's see. I will inform you about it tomorrow."
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