In a shot in the arm for the Trinamool Congress, Kolkata Municipal Corporation councillor and Congress leader Mala Roy - a known critic of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee - joined the state's ruling party on Saturday.
Roy, who unsuccessfully contested the Lok Sabha polls from South Kolkata last year, met Trinamool supremo Banerjee before her formal induction.
"I have quit the Congress. I want to work for the people and I was not getting the chance," Roy said after her meeting with Banerjee.
Trinamool secretary general Partha Chatterjee announced Roy's formal induction in the party and said her experience with the city civic body will help the ruling party.
A fierce critic of Banerjee while being in the Congress, Roy switched her allegiance with polls to the civic body just a month away.
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