West Bengal Polls: Ex-TMC MP Dinesh Trivedi Joins BJP
West Bengal's ex-Railway Minister and former Rajya Sabha member from Trinamool Congress (TMC) Dinesh Trivedi joined BJP in the presence of party president JP Nadda on March 6. Citing escalating violence in the state as a reason, Trivedi had on February 12 announced his resignation from the Rajya Sabha. After defecting, Dinesh said, "Golden moment I had been waiting for." Bengal will go for polls from March 27 in eight phases.