West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh Monday claimed that eight TMC MLAs are in touch with him and are willing to switch over.
Ghosh and other top BJP leaders participated in a Ganesh Puja on Monday held at a club of which TMC leader Sabyasachi Dutta is the president on Monday fuelling speculations of his possible move to BJP in the near future. Dutta, who presently has a strained relationship with the party leadership and had relinquished his post as mayor of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation in July this year, was seen greeting Ghosh, BJP national secretary Arvind Mennon and senior leader Mukul Roy.