When Mukul Roy had joined the BJP in November 2017, it was seen as a big blow to Mamata as he was considered be to the 'Man Friday' of the Trinamool supremo.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national vice president Mukul Roy along with his son Subhranshu joined back Trinamool Congress on Friday in presence of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Roy, the former second-in-command of the TMC who joined the saffron party in November 2017, has been distancing himself from the BJP for the last several days.
Mukul Roy was once considered the closet aide of Mamata. He quit the TMC in 2017 and joined the BJP.
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Mukul Roy, who was earlier a prominent leader of the ruling Trinamool Congress, criticised the Mamata Banerjee government for misusing funds given by the Centre post Cyclone Amphan.
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Roy had been asked to appear in the probe agency's office on Friday. But he did not go there citing "preoccupations" and sought more time.
Chatterjee, a former minister of the Mamata Banerjee government, joined the party in the presence of its senior West Bengal leader Mukul Roy and its general secretary Arun Singh.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mukul Roy here on Saturday claimed that 107 West Bengal MLAs from the CPI-M, the Congress and state's ruling Trinamool Congress would join the party.
Referring to a directive issued by the state police's Intelligence Branch to all the Officer-in-charge and ACPs of the Barrackpore Police Commissionerate, Mukul Roy claimed that the department is trying to fabricate false charges against senior BJP leaders including party's national General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, state chief Dilip Ghosh, party MPs Arjun Singh, Locket Chatterjee and him.
Mukul Roy is a leader of Bharatiya Janata Party and Ex-All India Trinamool Congress and Indian National Congress Leader. Roy formally joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on 3 November 2017.
The Trinamool Congress earlier in the day suspended Roy for six years for anti-party comments.
Roy and Dutta, however, refuted the speculations and said it was just a courtesy visit.
BJP leader Mukul Roy was among the four people to be booked on Sunday in connection with the murder of Trinamool Congress MLA Satyajit Biswas in West Bengal's Nadia district, a senior police officer said.
Around 245,259 voters will exercise their franchise at the bypoll which is being considered as a litmus test for Mukul Roy who recently left Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress to join BJP.
The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has been entrusted with the task of safeguarding the former railway minister under the UPA regime, official sources said.
Senior TMC leader and mayor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation, Sovan Chatterjee, said the party was not at all bothered about Mukul Roy.
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