Putting all speculation to rest, Trinamool Congress MLA and former Kolkata mayor Sovan Chatterjee on Wednesday joined Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).Chatterjee, along with Trinamool Congress leader Professor Baisakhi Banerjee, was inducted into the saffron camp here at party headquarters in presence of BJP General Secretary Arun Singh and former union minister Mukul Roy.
"Sovan Chatterjee is a big name in Bengal politics. Impressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's policies, he has joined BJP," Roy said welcoming the Trinamool leaders in the BJP.He claimed that the Trinamool Congress would not win more than 30 seats in the upcoming West Bengal Assembly polls and it would be a party in opposition.