At least, four BJP MPs from Bengal keen to shift to TMC immediately: Kunal Ghosh. Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari claimed that the BJP would approach the Supreme Court on the MLA defection issue. Since 2011, Trinamool Congress has taken at least 56 defecting legislators into its fold. They were from all parties including BJP, Congress, CPI(M), Revolutionary Socialist Party, and the Forward Block. The state Assembly Speaker has no regard towards the 10th Schedule of the Indian Constitution that deals with the ‘anti-defection’ law. The BJP legislator from Haldia Assembly constituency in East Midnapore district Tapasi Mondal claimed that if Trinamools Congress nominated her as a candidate from the same constituency, it would be her responsibility to get elected. She is the fifth BJP legislator who, as per records of the state Assembly, is still a BJP MLA despite joining TMC after getting elected as a BJP candidate in the 2021 Assembly elections.