A significant political development took place ahead of the Lok Sabha election as 20 Trinamool Congress (TMC) party workers including several leaders and one congress party leader joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in presence of General Secretary BJP Tripura Pradesh Amit Rakshit and other leaders at BJP State Party Office in Agartala on Monday.
General Secretary BJP Tripura Pradesh Amit Rakshit handed over the party flags to them in the joining ceremony.
Speaking to the reporters in the joining ceremony General Secretary BJP Tripura Pradesh Amit Rakshit said that the BJP-led Tripura government is working for overall development of the people of the state. Tripura has created a model of ‘good governance and protection of people’ under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the people of the state would have to carry forward the tradition, he added.
The Narendra Modi government scaled up various welfare schemes keeping the poor in focus and expedited their implementation. The Modi government scaled up schemes and enhanced speed to achieve targets so that they reached the last person in society, he added.
India has emerged as a strong, self-reliant country in the last nine years under the leadership of Prime Minister Modi. Due to his policies and decisions in the interest of the country, India’s reputation has grown all over the world, he said.