‘It was a mistake, want to join TMC now’: BJP workers in Birbhum issue public apology

Several former TMC leaders, who had joined the BJP in the run-up to the assembly elections, have either directly or indirectly conveyed their desire to rejoin the Mamata Banerjee-led party.

In the wake of the reversal in the recently-concluded West Bengal assembly polls, a string of turncoats have expressed regret at having jumped ship to the BJP and want to return to the ruling Trinamool Congress. In the latest, a group of BJP workers in the state’s Birbhum district very publicly apologized for joining the saffron party. Marching into their village’s local market on Tuesday, the BJP cadres announced that they now wish to join TMC. One BJP worker, who led the march of party supporters, was seen addressing the locals over a microphone. “We have made a mistake by joining the BJP, we maligned the local panchayat falsely. Now we want to work with the TMC,” the party worker announced. The district BJP leadership has alleged that their workers were living in fear and thus forced to tender such a public apology.