Highest number of MLAs who switched parties in recent elections joined BJP, left Congress: report
The Hindu
The Association for Democratic Reforms report said that 20 out of the 60 re-contesting MLAs who switched political parties joined the BJP.
The highest number of MLAs who switched parties in the recent Assembly elections left the Congress and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), according to a report released by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) on Tuesday. The ADR report said that the highest number of MLAs who changed parties were from the Congress (20 or 39.22%) of the total. Fifteen All-India Trinamool Congress (AITC) MLAs or 29.41% of the total MLAs who switched parties left the party to contest elections. “In the recent Assembly elections 2021, 20 (39.22%) out of 60 re-contesting MLAs who switched political parties joined the BJP followed by 17 (33.33%) MLAs who joined AITC and 7 (13.73%) MLAs who joined Amma Makkal Munnetra Kazhagam,” it said.
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