In a major improvement in Bengal’s politics, BJP MLA Mukul Roy and his son Subhrangshu Roy are possible to meet Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at Trinamool Bhawan on Friday afternoon.
“I am going to TMC Bhawan,” said Roy on Friday even as speculations over several turncoats returning to the TMC are ripe.
The development came days after TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee said that they have discussed the ‘ghar wapsi’ of TMC leaders who quit the party and joined BJP before elections and the final call regarding this will be taken by Mamata Banerjee.
On Thursday, in a media statement another party MP Saugata Roy felt that turncoats should be divided in two groups including ‘soft-liners’ and ‘hard-liners’. “Suvendu Adhikari insulted our party Supremo but Mukul Roy never abused her,” he stated.
Reacting to speculations over Mukul Roy becoming a member of the TMC camp, BJP State president Dilip Ghosh stated, “I don’t want to comment on this matter.”
On June 3, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to BJP national vice president Mukul Roy to enquire about the health of his ailing wife Krishna who is undergoing treatment for Covid-19 at a private hospital in Kolkata.
Abhishek Banerjee also paid a visit to his wife at the hospital, while West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh also went there a few hours later.
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On September 26, 2020, Mukul Roy became the Vice President of the BJP.
With Mukul’s deep penetration in the ruling camp (because he was the founding member of the TMC), BJP wanted to utilise his ‘long association’ with Mamata Banerjee.
Soon after the announcement BJP’s reshuffled national office-bearers, Sinha, in a video message (both in Hindi and Bangla), said, “For 40 years I have served the BJP as a soldier. I have to step aside because a Trinamool Congress leader is coming – there can be nothing more unfortunate than this reward for serving the BJP since birth. I don’t want to comment much on this matter. I don’t want to judge (whether it is wrong or right). In the coming 10-12 days, I will decide my future course of action.”
For a number of months, Mukul was struggling within the state BJP to make his house due to variations with the outdated guards.
Mukul’s variations with some massive BJP leaders in Bengal, together with Rahul Sinha and Dilip Ghosh, are an open secret.
Mukul Roy who claimed himself because the ‘Garry Sobers’ of Indian politics had (as soon as) informed News18, “Today, once again I am saying that whenever, Cricket will exist in this world, people will always remember Garry Sobers. Similarly, jab tak politics rahega, humko koi ignore nahi kar sakega (no one can ignore me in politics).”
On September 25, 2017, in a significant setback for the TMC, Roy resigned from the occasion’s working committee.
Then, addressing a press convention at Nizam Palace in Kolkata, Mukul had introduced his resignation from the occasion’s major membership and as a Rajya Sabha member.
Roy’s transfer had come days after Mamata Banerjee in a core committee assembly warned occasion leaders towards hobnobbing with BJP folks in Delhi. She had stated those that needed to be part of different events have been free to go however no anti-party actions could be tolerated.
On August 30, 2017, Roy was faraway from the chairman’s publish of the standing committee on transport, tourism and tradition within the Rajya Sabha for his alleged proximity to BJP leaders in Delhi.
Since Roy was questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation in reference to the Saradha Ponzi scheme in 2015, his relationship with Mamata had turned bitter as he had reportedly assured full cooperation to the probe company.
When the TMC was shaped in 1997, Roy was among the many first leaders to be part of the occasion. He was the non-executive director of the United Bank of India (UBI) from 2002 to 2005.
In April 2006, he turned a member of Rajya Sabha from West Bengal and was later appointed a member of the committee on city improvement in August 2006. The similar 12 months, he turned a member of the consultative committee within the ministry of house affairs.
In April 2008, Mamata made him the occasion’s all-India basic secretary and the subsequent 12 months he turned minister of state within the transport ministry.
For Mamata, he was probably the most trusted occasion employee and had actively labored for her in protesting towards the land acquisition by Bengal’s the-then Left Front authorities at Singur and Nandigram.
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