India, March 10 -- Tapasi Mondal, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator from Haldia in East Midnapore district on Monday crossed over to the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC), saying she wanted to be part of chief minister Mamata Banerjee's developmental initiatives.

Mondal, who won her first assembly election in 2016 when she was in the Communist Party of India (Marxist), and joined the BJP along with Suvendu Adhikari - now the leader of opposition in the West Bengal assembly at rally in Midnapore town addressed by Union home minister Amit Shah on December 19, 2020.

Mondal retained the Haldia seat, reserved for the scheduled caste (SC) community, in 2021 when she contested the state elections on a BJP ticket.

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