BJP can't stomach candidate's lunch with TMC leader

A BJP Lok Sabha candidate seen with a Trinamool Congress leader on Monday has been asked by his leadership to explain the meeting in a showcause notice. Anupam Hazra, the BJP candidate in Jadavpur, reportedly had lunch with Trinamool leader Anubrata Mondal at Birbhum, where he voted on Monday. The meeting has embarrassed the party on a day Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at a rally in Bengal, declared that "40 Trinamool legislators" are in touch with him and ready to leave Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's party.