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Why TMC MLA Suvendu Adhikari is a big catch for BJP before elections?

Adhikari, who recently resigned from the Mamata Banerjee Cabinet, is all set to join the BJP. He is influential in the Junglemahals and Murshidabad

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In 2009, Suvendu was elected to the Lok Sabha from Tamluk, defeating CPI-M strongman Lakshman Seth by 172,000 votes. Photo: Shutterstock

Aditi Phadnis
The Narcotics, Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act is one reason why the Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA from Nandigram, Suvendu Adhikari, would resign from the party and his seat in the West Bengal Assembly to probably join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), possibly later this week.
 
There are many others.
 
He had the option of forming a party after he fell out of favour with TMC chief and CM Mamata Banerjee, but the NDPS Act is the favoured weapon of choice of the West Bengal government against political opponents. And Adhikari fears thousands of his supporters could be

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