Cooch Behar civic board administrator joins BJP

Cooch Behar: An administrator of the Trinamool-run Cooch Behar civic board quit the party and joined BJP on Saturday. Bhushan Singh took the BJP flag from Suvendu Adhikari, who was in the district for a poll campaign.
Singh had been airing his dissent for quite some time. He was upset when he didn’t get a seat on the dais during Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee’s public meeting there.Later, he gave up the Cooch Behar Town Block Committee vice-presidency following differences with Trinamool district president Partha Pratim Ray over formation of party committees.
Singh’s joining BJP ahead of the polls came as a shock to a section of Trinamool ranks in the town. He is the second TMC leader from Cooch Behar, after Mihir Goswami, to have joined BJP. While Goswami is the BJP candidate from Natabari, Singh’s induction has given the party a boost.