Ahead of the panchayat poll in the state, WBPCC president Pradip Bhattacharya today claimed that nearly 5,000 Trinamool Congress workers had joined the Congress,
"Nearly 5,000 members of the Trinamool Congress' Pingla block committee in East Midnapore district have joined the Congress and they have been allowed to be our party workers," Bhattacharya said.
He claimed that these party workers were 'frustrated' with the TMC.
