Rezzak Mollah, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Vasishali Damliya join TMC

KOLKATA: Expelled CPI(M) MLA and former West Bengal minister Abdur Rezzak Mollah today joined Trinamool Congress along with former India cricketer Laxmi Ratan Shukla and late cricket administrator Jagmohan Dalmiya`s daughter Vaishali Dalmiya.

The three joined the TMC in the presence of its supremo and chief minister Mamata Banerjee at a programme here.

Speculations over the trio joining the TMC gained momentum after they met Banerjee at state secretariat 'Nabanna' last month.

Mollah, a sitting MLA and a former state committee member of CPI-M, was expelled from the party in 2014 for anti-party activities and had floated Nayvichar Manch.

Mollah was the Land and Land Reforms minister in the Left Front ministry.