Kolkata: In a significant setback for the saffron get together, Bharatiya Janata Party’s National Vice President Mukul Roy has joined the Trinamool Congress together with son Subhranshu Roy.
Prior to this, Mukul Roy reached the Trinamool Bhawan in Kolkata the place West Bengal CM and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee held a gathering with senior get together leaders. Abhishek Banerjee was additionally current there.
Several turncoat politicians, who switched from TMC to BJP forward of lately held meeting polls, have expressed remorse over their resolution to stop the ruling get together.
This necessary improvement comes after the absence of three BJP heavyweights Mukul Roy, Shamik Bhattacharya and Rajib Banerjee on the current assembly of the get together’s West Bengal unit garnered plenty of consideration sparking rumours.
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Will Rajib Banerjee Follow Suit?
BJP’s Bengal unit had held a high-powered organisational assembly the place get together leaders have been required to be bodily current.
Speaking on the absence of the three BJP leaders, Joy Prakash Majumdar, Vice-President, West Bengal BJP, stated: “BJP National Vice President Mukul Roy could not attend the meeting as his wife is unwell and is in a hospital. On the day the meeting was scheduled, Bengal BJP chief spokesperson Shamik Bhattacharya’s father died of Covid and so he could not attend the meeting. Rajib Banerjee could not attend due to personal reasons”.
Rajib Banerjee had lately stated that individuals elected the federal government, referring to the TMC which returned to energy with a powerful mandate, and added that they won’t take it nicely if the specter of imposing the president’s rule is consistently dangled to oppose the chief minister.
“Enough with the criticism. The people elected the government with a majority, they will not take it well if the threat of Section 365 is constantly dangled to oppose the chief minister,” Rajib Banerjee had tweeted.
Commenting on Rahul Banerjee’s tweet, Majumdar stated that the BJP doesn’t help this stance.
“It is completely his personal opinion and in no way the BJP at the state and national level supports his statement. Whatever stand Rajib Banerjee has taken, it is completely his personal opinion,” Majumdar stated.
The West Bengal BJP Vice-President went on so as to add that the leaders, who wish to return to Trinamool Congress, are grasping for energy.
“It is their primary right. Those who want to go to their old party can go back. They can decide whether they want to stay with this party and work for the people or go to the party from where they came. They want to go back to Trinamool Congress because they are greedy for power.”
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When Mukul Roy Moved To BJP
Mukul Roy was a founder-member of the TMC. In 2015, he and Mamata Banerjee had a fallout when his identify got here up within the Saradha rip-off and the Narada sting operation
Mukul Roy then met senior BJP leaders like Arun Jaitley and BJP normal secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya and was suspended from TMC for six years. He resigned from Trinamool Congress in September 2017 and formally joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in November that 12 months.Â
After plenty of experiences and speculations, Rajib Banerjee left the TMC in January this 12 months to contest the West Bengal meeting election on a BJP ticket.
Several leaders together with Suvendu Adhikari, who as soon as was a detailed assist of Mamata Banerjee, joined the BJP forward of the state meeting election. BJP misplaced the polls however emerged because the second-largest get together with 77 seats within the 294-member state meeting. Trinamool Congress registered a landslide victory profitable 213 seats.
Suvendu Adhikari, who went on to defeat Mamata within the contest for Nandigram, was chosen because the chief of opposition.
(With Agency Inputs)
