With an aim on the assembly polls in West Bengal, Union Home Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to visit Bengal on Friday for addressing a public rally, which includes the road show in next days.

According to sources, Suvendu Adhikari, former transport minister and former TMC politician, could also join the BJP (Bhartiya Janata Party) at Amit Shah’s rally in East Midnapore along with few other TMC leaders also eager to join the BJP.

A day after Trinamool Congress heavyweight Suvendu Adhikari resigned just hours before Jitendra Tiwari from the party, the jolt continued on Friday as another legislator from Mamata Banerjee's party from Barrackpore assembly constituency, Shilbhadra Dutta, too called it quits.

According to sources, Dutta also replaced Banerjee's photo, hung on the wall of his office, with Swami Vivekananda. He surrendered the car given by the state government. He said if the government wants it can withdraw his security cover as well.

Dutta sent his resignation letter to Trinamool supremo Banerjee. "I am tendering my resignation as a member of All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), as well as from all other positions held by me in the party and its associate organisations with immediate effect," he wrote in the letter.

The Barrackpore MLA was the third lawmaker to resign from the party in past 24 hours. Earlier in a twin blow to the state's ruling Trinamool Congress, former Nandigram lawmaker Suvendu Adhikari and Pandabeswar MLA Jitendra Tiwari resigned from the party's primary membership on Thursday.

(With inputs from IANS)