“We have good relations with 38 MLAs in Bengal…21 so we are in direct contact… Now the music launch is there. The film is yet to release with a bang.” BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty had said this on July 27 in Kolkata. After this, speculations started being made whether BJP is preparing to play like Maharashtra in Bengal too.If we came to know about the ground reality of BJP in Bengal after Mithun’s statement, then the truth turned out to be something else. In the 2021 assembly elections, out of 294 assembly seats in Bengal, the BJP had won 77.Two of the 77 MLAs, Nishith Pramanik and Jagannath Sarkar, resigned after the results. Both of them are MPs from BJP. The party had made him contest the assembly elections. After the victory, he decided to leave the legislature and stay in the Parliament.With this, the number of BJP MLAs increased to 75. Now this number has come down to 69. 6 MLAs have left BJP and went to TMC. Two out of 18 BJP MPs have also joined TMC.Whereas after the results, not a single MLA-MP or big leader of TMC joined the BJP. All those who had attended had already participated before the election.
He didn’t say that he wants to join BJP. How much truth is there in Mithun Chakraborty’s statement, it can be gauged from the statement of BJP’s Bengal’s strong leader Shubhendu Adhikari. When Shubhendu was asked about Mithun’s statement, he said, “I am not aware of this. Only Mithun will be able to tell about this.BJP Bengal chief spokesperson Shamik Bhattacharya said, ‘Mithun did not say that TMC MLAs want to join BJP. He even said that TMC MLAs are in touch. There’s nothing wrong with that. Mithun was earlier in TMC, so he is in touch with many MLAs.
