12 Nagaland BJP leaders in Kolkata, may join Trinamool
The Hindu
The dissidents are reportedly unhappy with the style of functioning of some senior leaders, especially Deputy Chief Minister Y. Patton
The Trinamool Congress is likely to march into Nagaland after Assam, Tripura and Meghalaya in the neighbourhood.
Less than a month after 12 of the 17 Congress MLAs in Meghalaya switched over to the Trinamool in a dramatic political coup, a dozen disgruntled leaders of the BJP in Nagaland have initiated a similar move.
The BJP is the minor partner of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) in the alliance Government in the State.
Senior BJP leader and former Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan on Saturday (November 23, 2024) said the landslide victory of the Mahayuti alliance in the Maharashtra Assembly election was historic, and that it reflected people’s mindset across the country. She added that the DMK would be unseated from power in the 2026 Assembly election in Tamil Nadu and that the BJP would be the reason for it.