Kolkata: Hours after Mukul Roy swore allegiance to the Bharatiya Janata Celebration (BJP), Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee distanced herself from her former confidant, saying that it was his “private choice”.
Roy had returned to the TMC after the 2021 Bengal ballot outcomes have been introduced in Might that 12 months, however he didn’t resign as Krishnanagar North MLA which he gained as a BJP candidate.
“If somebody goes to Delhi, Mumbai or Punjab, that’s their private choice. He (Roy) remains to be a BJP MLA. However I learnt from the information that his son has filed a lacking criticism. So, the administration is finishing up an inquiry to make sure that he’s fantastic and his well being is okay. I don’t have the rest to say. It’s their private selection,” Mamata mentioned at a media briefing Wednesday on the state secretariat.
In Delhi, Roy, too, claimed that he by no means had switched his allegiance to the TMC. “I used to be at all times with the BJP, and I’ll stay with the get together if they provide me work. There isn’t a query of resigning from the TMC. I’m not even a part of it. I had already resigned from the TMC,” he advised the media.
The previous railway minister additionally claimed that he spoke to Union Residence Minister Amit Shah over the phone and added that he needed to fulfill BJP president J.P. Nadda to work for the BJP as soon as once more.
Nevertheless, none from the BJP responded to Roy’s assertion barring Nandigram MLA and Chief of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, who mentioned the get together was neither nor was in contact with the previous railway minister.
“We’re engaged on strengthening the get together at sales space stage. Celebration is working to carry the non-BJP voters to its fold. We don’t must induct any leaders, particularly those that have been rejected,” Adhikari advised a information company.
The developments got here after Roy immediately “disappeared” from his workplace in Kolkata on Monday night, solely to be noticed at Delhi’s IGI Airport just a few hours later. Within the meantime, his son Subhrangshu Roy rushed to the police station at Kolkata airport to file a lacking criticism for his father.
Subhrangshu claimed that his father wasn’t effectively and had undergone a mind surgical procedure, including that he didn’t have the cash to buy airline tickets. This complete episode was a conspiracy to malign TMC nationwide basic secretary Abhishek Banerjee, he added.
However, Mukul Roy refuted his son’s assertion in Delhi, saying that he might need not knowledgeable his household earlier than flying off to Delhi, however his well being is okay, and that he desires to work for the BJP.
Roy had undergone a mind surgical procedure in March, TMC Rajya Sabha MP Santanu Sen mentioned, commenting on his medical situation.
“Put up surgical procedure, he was identified with dementia amongst different well being points. However there are political leaders who’ve credentials. Why Mukul Roy is saying all these, nobody is aware of. He may wish to save himself from the (central) companies and that’s why he desires to carry BJP’s hand as soon as once more,” Sen advised ThePrint.
Roy had a fallout with Mamata after his title cropped up within the Narada and Saradha scams. Subsequently, he joined the BJP in November 2017 and was made a nationwide vice-president of the get together.
However after elections, in June 2021, he returned to the TMC within the presence of Mamata and Abhishek Banerjee on the Trinamool headquarters in Kolkata. However, Roy was not seen actively participating in politics since his return to the ruling get together in Bengal.
(Edited by Tony Rai)
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