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Independent MLA joining BJP

In yet another development in the state’s political scenario six months ahead of the assembly polls, an independent MLA is set to join BJP on Saturday. He is Dwipen Pathak, who is expected to unofficially join BJP when he is meeting party president Amit Shah in New Delhi in the afternoon. Pathak, who won the polls five years  back with Trinamool Congress ticket later resigned the party.     

     

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