At the Midnapore rally, Suvendu Adhikari joined the BJP and thanked the party and Amit Shah for welcoming him into the saffron party. Addressing the rally, Suvendu Adhikari said, "I have a long association with the BJP." Trinamool Congress humiliated me. Those who humiliated me are now calling me a backstabber. Mamata Banerjee is nobody's mother. There is only one mother and that is 'Bharat Mata'. TMC will lose the 2021 West Bengal polls, Suvendu said.