Mukul Roy's home coming: The leader quits BJP joins TMC again

Putting speculations to the rest BJP vice president Mukiul Roy returned to Trinamool Congress. He arrived at the ruling party office in the city along with his son Subhranshu Roy where Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banrjee and her nephew and party MP Abhishek Banerjee also arrived there.

Roy was miffed due to not projecting him as the CM face in the recently concluded west Bengal elections, where TMC led Mamata Banerjee registered thumping victory by grabbing 213 seats.He had a meeting with CM to discuss his reinduction into the party.

Mr Roy, who was once a key leader of the Trinamool Congress and former Railway Minister,joined BJP in year 2017.Mr Roy was the first signatory in the formation of AITC on December 17, 1997.Mr Roy, whose son is also a TMC MLA from Kanchrapra, was stripped of many important posts in the party and often criticised by party top brass.

Sixty-seven-year-old seasoned politician Mukul Roy, who had founded the TMC under the

guidance of Mamata Banerjee in 2000, who had left the party in 2017 after differences cropped up between him and Ms Banerjee, became the national vice president of BJP and won Krishnanagar Uttar assembly seat on BJP ticket in 2021.

Taking on actress-cum-Trinamool congress (TMC) candidate Kaushani Mukherjee Mukul Roy defeated the closest rival by grabbing 54% votes. Still he feels his tenure with BJP will not remain longlasting and he tendered resignation.

Besides Ms Banerjee and her MP nephew, many TMC ministers and party leaders, including minister Subrata Mukherjee, were also present at the Trinamool Bhavan off the Eastern

Metropolitan Bypass in the city.

TMC supremo briefed the press conference around 1630 hours on the development of party functionary and new joining.Mr Roy has been distancing himself from the BJP for the last several days.

Mr Roy, being BJP's national vice president, did not attend the June 8 meeting to discuss the post-election strategy called by the state BJP leadership.

Mr Roy is acknowledged as the party’s main strategist for the 2011 assembly polls that brought the Trinamool Congress to power in West Bengal, ending 34 years of Left Front rule.  He was standing beside Ms Banerjee during the Nandigram and Singur agitations.

In April 2006, he was elected to Rajya Sabha and went on to be appointed a member of the Committee on Urban Development as well as of the Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Home Affairs. (UNI)