Guwahati: As many as six former Congress party leaders joined the Trinamool Congress before the Tripura assembly elections (TMC).
Former Tripura Congress president Pijush Kanti Biswas, is one of them who joined the party.
The other former Tripura Congress leaders to join the TMC on Wednesday are: Tejen Das, Ananta Banerjee, Bimal Rudra Paul, Purnita Chakma and Samarendra Ghosh.
These six leaders from Tripura joined the TMC in the presence of TMC chief and West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee.
Pijush Kanti Biswas will reportedly be appointed as the new president of the Tripura TMC.