Kolkata: Trinamool Congress chief and former minister Tapas Roy, who resigned from the West Bengal legislative meeting on Monday, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday night amid hypothesis that he could also be fielded from the Kolkata North Lok Sabha seat towards incumbent Sudip Bandopadhyay.
Former Trinamool Congress veteran, Tapas Roy, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday. (File picture.)
“Today I become a member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s family. I will serve the BJP in whatever capacity it deems fit. Together we will end the rule of the corrupt and restore peace in Bengal,” Roy stated after accepting the BJP flag from the get together’s state president Sukanta Majumdar and different senior leaders.
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“TMC gave him important posts. He also served as minister. And now he has stabbed the party in the back like a traitor,” TMC spokesperson Santanu Sen stated.
Roy was the TMC’s deputy chief whip within the present meeting.
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Biman Banerjee, the speaker, stated he couldn’t settle for Roy’s resignation as a result of his letter had a technical error in a sentence.
“I have asked Roy to submitted a fresh letter on Thursday,” Banerjee stated.
Roy, whose identify by no means surfaced in any corruption case, is a three-time winner from North 24 Parganas district’s Baranagar, which is part of the Dum Dum Lok Sabha seat held by TMC’s Saugata Roy since 2009.
Mamata Banerjee, 69, who based TMC in 1998, and Roy, 67, have been earlier within the Congress the place each served as state president of the youth wing. Roy turned a Congress MLA for the primary time in Kolkata in 1996 and gained his second meeting seat for TMC in 2001.
Roy’s choice to affix the BJP comes a day after former Calcutta excessive courtroom choose Abhijit Gangopadhyay resigned from the judiciary, asserting that he could be becoming a member of the BJP, tentatively on March 7.
“I am joining the BJP because it is the only national party. Prime Minister Modi is a good man. He is very hard working. He is trying to do something for the country,” the previous choose stated at a press convention within the excessive courtroom premises on Tuesday.
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