Big blow to Congress in Meghalaya: 12 out of 17 MLAs of the party including former Chief Minister Mukul Sangma will join TMC today

The Trinamool Congress has given a big blow to the Congress in the northeastern state of Meghalaya. Here 12 MLAs of the party including former Chief Minister Mukul Sangma are going to join TMC on Thursday. 17 Congress MLAs were elected in the state.

TMC is now the main opposition party without contesting elections
TMC has now become the main opposition party in Meghalaya without contesting elections. Since more than two-thirds of the party’s MLAs have switched sides. In such a situation, the anti-defection law will not apply to them. According to media reports, Mukul Sangma will formally announce to join TMC by holding a press conference in Shillong at 1 pm on Thursday.

Sangma was angry over the appointment of state president
Sangma is believed to have been upset after Vincent H. Pala was made the chief of the Meghalaya Pradesh Congress Committee. According to sources, Mukul Sangma had met Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee in September. It was only after this that there was speculation that the Congress would suffer a big loss in this state of the Northeast.

Kirti Azad and Ashok Tanwar also joined TMC

Congress leader and former cricketer Kirti Azad, wife Poonam Azad were given membership of the party by Mamta Banerjee. Kirti Azad had joined Congress from BJP during the last Lok Sabha elections.

Mamta Banerjee is on Delhi tour from 22 to 25 November. On Tuesday itself, Mamta got three big leaders to join the party. First of all, JDU MP Pavan Verma took membership of the party. After this, Congress leader and former cricketer Kirti Azad along with wife Poonam Azad reached the house of Mamta’s MP nephew Abhishek Banerjee.

Mamta Banerjee, who was already present here, got him the membership of the party. Hours later, Ashok Tanwar, former Haryana Congress president and MP, also met Mamta and joined TMC. Tanwar was once counted among Rahul’s close friends. Mamta is planning to strengthen the party organization in Bihar and Haryana with the help of Kirti Azad and Ashok Tanwar.

Javed Akhtar and Sudheendra Kulkarni also met Mamta

Javed Akhtar and Sudheendra Kulkarni met Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday. The meeting of the three lasted for about an hour. Kulkarni has been close to LK Advani.

Famous writer Javed Akhtar and senior BJP leader LK Advani, Sudheendra Kulkarni, who was close to Mamta, also met Mamata Banerjee in Delhi on Tuesday. This meeting lasted for about an hour. However, it is not clear what happened between them. Kulkarni was once an advisor to Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

After Vajpayee’s health deteriorated, he became an advisor to LK Advani. Kulkarni had started the Advani for PM campaign before the 2009 Lok Sabha elections. In the political field, Sudheendra was known as a staunch opponent of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.