Branding TMC turncoats as “traitors”, party chief Mamata Banerjee on Friday said good riddance to those who have left her camp, adding that the “switch over has left BJP old-timers sulking” as the saffron party has chosen to field defectors over loyalists.

Addressing a poll rally at Egra in Purba Medinipur, the West Bengal chief minister accused the BJP of practising “politics of riot, loot and murder”, and urged everyone “to be on guard against outsiders appearing in their localities”. The TMC, which has made ‘Bengali pride’ its core poll plank, has called the BJP a ‘party of outsiders’, as its top leaders hail from outside the state.