TMC legislator, Congress councillor, 15 others join BJP

NEW DELHI: A Trinamool Congress legislator and 15 councilors of the party in West Bengal joined the BJP here on Monday. Noapara MLA Sunil Singh, along with the 15 TMC councillors and another Congress councilor, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of general secretary and West Bengal incharge Kailash Vijayvargiya, and senior leader Mukul Roy. Sunil Singh is a relative of MP Arjun Singh, who switched over from the TMC to the BJP just ahead of the Lok Sabha polls and won the Barrackpore seat.