By India At present Information Desk: One of many founding members of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), Mukul Roy, has expressed a need to affix the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) and meet Union House Minister Amit Shah.
“I’m a BJP legislator. I need to be with the BJP. The social gathering has made preparations for my keep right here. I need to meet Amit Shah and communicate to (social gathering president) JP Nadda,” he instructed a Bengali information channel late on Tuesday night.
The TMC MLA stated that he was nonetheless a BJP legislator. Mukul Roy joined the BJP in 2017 after his reportedly strained relationship with the TMC’s high management. Nevertheless, he returned to the TMC fold in 2019 after the West Bengal Meeting election.
Roy on Monday evening travelled to New Delhi for “some private work”, at the same time as his household initially claimed that he was “lacking” solely to later accuse the BJP of indulging in soiled politics utilizing the TMC chief who’s unwell and never within the “proper mind set”, reported the information company PTI.
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“I used to be not holding nicely for fairly a while, so I used to be away from politics. However proper now, I’m superb and would once more be energetic in politics,” Roy stated. He added he was 100 per cent assured that he would by no means be related to the TMC.
Advising his son to affix the BJP, Roy stated, “He too ought to be part of the BJP as it could swimsuit him finest.”
In the meantime, Roy’s son Subhrangshu has claimed that his father is “extraordinarily unwell” and suffers from “dementia and Parkinson’s illness”.
Attacking the BJP over the problem, Subhrangshu stated, “That is shameful that some folks have stooped so low and are doing politics over my father’s go to to New Delhi. That is an try and malign the TMC and our social gathering’s nationwide common secretary Abhishek Banerjee”
“My father is just not in the precise mind set. I’d request everybody to not do politics with an unwell individual. After he went lacking, I had additionally filed a police criticism final evening,” Subhrangshu was quoted as saying by the information company PTI.
Chief of Opposition (LoP) in West Bengal Suvendhu Adhikari stated that the Bengal BJP was not excited about inducting Roy into the saffron camp.
One other BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar stated, “BJP is nowhere on this. Mukul Roy left our social gathering as a result of his political ideology. Neither did he talk about with me or some other BJP chief earlier than leaving for Delhi.”
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(With inputs from Indrojit Kundu, PTI)
