The story of the other lot of Muslims who have been flocking to the BJP since the Lok Sabha polls is equally interesting. The Trinamool, point out political observers, is a breakaway of the Congress with all the ills and warts that pockmark the face of the Grand Old Party. Factionalism, thus, is rife in the Trinamool—a party that lacks any ideological moorings and whose ‘leaders’ and office-bearers are there mainly for power and pelf. The jostling for power and its attendant benefits among various leaders of the party has led to intense rivalries that often find expression in violence. Leaders, and supporters of the weaker and marginalized factions within the Trinamool have been facing the same plight as that of Left supporters and, in order to save their skin, have been joining the BJP. Many of them are Muslims.