Kolkata, Dec 19 (TIWN) A convoy of as many as 30 vehicles headed out for the Midnapore College Ground where Union Home Minister Amit Shah was scheduled to address a mega public meeting on Saturday.

The convoy packed with dissident lawmakers, MPs and other Trinamool Congress leaders set out for the venue at around 12.15 p.m. from Mecheda’s guest house in East Midnapore.  They started after former West Bengal Transport and Irrigation Minister Suvendu Adhikari stepped out of his Contai residence for the Midnapore College Ground.  According to sources, at least nine sitting legislators, besides Suvendu Adhikari, and a Lok Sabha MP from the state’s ruling Trinamool Congress, Left Front and the Congress are there in the convoy.