A day after the lone Congress MLA from West Bengal defected to the Trinamool Congress (TMC), Chief Minister and TMC chairperson Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that all Opposition parties, including the Congress, were together at the national level and the defection of the Congress MLA was a local issue.
“We are all together at the national level. At the State level, all the parties must understand that State parties have their own obligation,” Ms. Banerjee said when asked about the defection of Congress MLA Bayron Biswas to her party. On Monday. Mr. Biswas who was elected to State Assembly on March 2, 2023 joined the TMC.
While referring to Mr. Biswas’s defection, senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said that such poaching was not designed to strengthen Opposition unity and only served the BJP’s objectives.
