Courtesy-ANI
The Trinamool Congress party (TMC) has been rejoined by Mukul Roy and his son Subhranshu Roy today. Mukul Roy was the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national Vice-President and was one of the frontline TMC leaders earlier. He had switched to BJP around four years back in 2017. For the recent concluded Bengal assembly polls, Roy played an active role in the BJP’s campaign.
Out of the 294 seats in Bengal assembly, BJP was only able to win over 77 seats despite a spirited campaign. The saffron party saw several desertions along with many fissures emerging in the Bengal BJP after the assembly election results. Most of the desertions were to the Trinamool.
According to TMC supremo Mamata, Roy had said absolutely nothing against Trinamool despite campaigning with high spirits for BJP, saying that she welcomed Mukul Roy back to TMC. Mukul was cajoled into joining the Bharatiya Janata Party with threats of action by Central agencies, she added in her statement.
BJP national vice president Mukul Roy and his son Subhranshu Roy join TMC in the presence of West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, in Kolkata. pic.twitter.com/WS9oFE2J79
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On joining the TMC, Mukul said that in the current circumstances no one will stay in the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Mamata Banerjee on the other hand said that those who betrayed the party and joined BJP for money before the elections won’t be considered.
The initial speculations of his shift to TMC came when a meeting held by the state BJP leadership for discussing the post-election strategy on 8th June was not attended by Roy. The meeting was to be physically attended by party leaders as it was a high-powered organisational meeting.
Another buzz in the state politics was sparked due to the absence of two other BJP heavyweights Shamik Bhattacharya and Rajib Banerjee at the meeting after the fierce battle between the BJP and TMC in the recent assembly elections.
Mukul Roy had distanced himself from the Bharatiya Janata Party for the last several days after some conflicts with senior leaders.