Mihir Goswami, Trinamul MLA of Cooch Behar (South), flew to Delhi on Friday and joined the BJP at its national headquarters, a day after he said he was severing ties with the party he was part of since its inception in 1998.

On Friday morning, the MLA and Nisith Pramanik, the BJP MP of Cooch Behar, reached Bagdogra for a flight to Delhi. In the afternoon, Goswami posted on social media that he was resigning from Trinamul’s primary membership.

“The leader (Mamata Banerjee) is no longer in the driving seat of Trinamul…. as is indicative from her silence...that is why I am resigning from the primary membership of the party today (Friday),” the MLA said in his post. “I am ready to resign from the MLA’s post. But I have seen some other MLAs who joined Trinamul from other parties have not resigned....”

In the evening, Goswami was inducted into the BJP by Kailash Vijayvargiya, its Bengal minder, in the presence of Pramanik and party MP from Barrackpore Arjun Singh.

Goswami said he was with Trinamul for the past 22 years but saw how north Bengal “has been deprived” and did not approve of the way “Trinamul was functioning these days”.

State BJP leader Sayantan Bose said many others would “soon desert Trinamul”.

“They are in touch with us and whatever has happened on Friday is just the beginning,” said Bose.