Mukul Roy

Mukul Roy, who had won the 2021 state elections on a BJP ticket, had crossed over to the Trinamool Congress (TMC) just a few months later, in August that year, at an event attended by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee

Mukul Roy, who on Monday night travelled to New Delhi for "some personal work", even as his family initially claimed that he was "missing", only to later accuse the BJP of indulging in dirty politics using the TMC leader who is unwell and not in the "right frame of mind".

The former railway minister's son Subhragshu told PTI that his father was "untraceable" and "missing" since late Monday evening.

A bench comprising Justices L Nageswara and Hima Kohli was hearing two separate appeals filed by the Assembly Speaker and the Secretary and the Returning Officer of West Bengal Assembly against the Calcutta High Court’s order.

Suvendu Adhikari had recently submitted a 64-page document to the speaker demanding immediate disqualification of Mukul Roy as MLA under the anti-defection law on the grounds that he has won an assembly seat on a BJP ticket but switched over to the TMC shortly after.

Mukul Roy was among the 20 MLAs who filed nominations for memberships of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the West Bengal assembly on Wednesday amid speculations that he may be appointed its chairman.

Amid the rumours, BJP general secretary BL Santhosh, organisation secretary for the north-east, Ajay Jamwal, among other leaders, reached Agartala, the Tripura capital, on June 16 to placate the ‘rebel’ MLAs.

The move comes at a time when several turncoat politicians, who switched from the TMC to BJP ahead of West Bengal Assembly polls, have expressed regret over their decision to quit the Mamata Banerjee-led party.

The PM’s call is significant because it came a day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee visited the hospital triggering speculation that Roy might as well return to the party he left in 2017.

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The case pertains to the ‘Narada tapes’ sting operation shot in 2014 by Narada news portal, purportedly showing 12 TMC leaders accepting bribes from a journalist who posed as a businessman on camera.

Central Minister Babul Supriyo has lost from the Tollygunge assembly constituency, being defeated by veteran TMC leader and current West Bengal Public Works and Youth Affairs Minister Aroop Biswas. Two other incumbent BJP MPs, Locket Chatterjee and Swapan Dasgupta has lost from the Chunchura and Tarakeshwar constituency.

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CID sleuths had, earlier, questioned the BJP leader in this connection. However, the state agency did not name him in its first chargesheet filed in May last year.

The SIT, headed by Rajeev Kumar, had ended up unearthing apparent links between the company and ministers, MPs, bureaucrats and celebrities close to the ruling Trinamool

The announcement was made at BJP press meet by Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad.

Mukul Roy in a press conference on Monday morning said, "With a heavy heart, I am announcing that I will quit the primary party post of Trinamool Congress and the Rajya Sabha membership. I will formally resign after the Durga Puja break."

Former railway minister minister Mukul Roy today termed the across-the-board hike in train fares as 'anti-people' and effected by bypassing Parliament.

Trinamool Congress general secretary Mukul Roy today said no land in the state would be acquired without the consent of farmers or landowners.