'Not A Part Of Trinamool, Was Always With BJP': Mukul Roy In Delhi

Mukul Roy won from the Krishnanagar North assembly seat on a BJP ticket in 2021 and returned to the TMC just a month after the results were announced.

Trinamool Congress leader Mukul Roy

Source : PTI

New Delhi: Veteran Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Mukul Roy on Wednesday said he was always with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and there was no question of resigning from TMC as he is not even a part of it, news agency ANI reported.

The founding member of the TMC joined the BJP in 2017 following differences with the TMC leadership. He was made BJP national vice president in 2020. Roy won from the Krishnanagar North assembly seat on a BJP ticket in 2021 and returned to the TMC just a month after the results were announced, complaining of "ill-treatment" by the saffron party. He, however, didn't resign as an MLA.

#WATCH | "There is no question of resigning from TMC, I am not even a part of it... I have already resigned from TMC," says TMC MLA Mukul Roy pic.twitter.com/xNA2S46GOc

— ANI (@ANI) April 19, 2023

This comes two days after Mukul Roy on Monday travelled to Delhi, even as his family initially claimed he was “untraceable”.

Clearing the air, Roy, a day later said he had come to the national capital, however, there was "no specific agenda".

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"I have come to Delhi. There is nothing specific agenda. I have been an MP for several years. Can I not come to Delhi? Earlier, I used to come to Delhi regularly. I am an MLA and MP of Delhi," news agency PTI quoted Mukul Roy as saying.

Amid speculations that he could rejoin the saffron party, his son Subhrangshu, on Monday claimed his father was "untraceable" and "missing".

"My father is not in the right frame of mind. I would request everyone not to do politics with an unwell person. After he went missing, I had also filed a police complaint last night," he had said.

The speculations gained momentum after BJP national secretary Anupam Hazra made a cryptic single word Facebook post, "Comeback".

However, responding to Hazra's comments, Subhranghsu said it was an attempt to malign the TMC and its national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee.