BJP shuts door on Trinamool defectors
West Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya has ruled out large-scale entry of former Trinamool Congress leaders into the Bharatiya Janata Party, saying the organisation will not admit “tainted” figures or allow what he described as...
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