Krishnagar North News Today

Speaker Biman Banerjee, who conducted 12 hearings on the proceedings, also held that Roy would stay as the BJP legislator

Former railway minister had left Trinamul and joined the saffron party in 2017

Roy will now be covered 24x7 by a team of specially trained personnel from the states special security unit with at least four personnel covering him in close proximity

The turncoat, who just won the first election of his life as the MLA of Krishnagar North, said he would issue a letter detailing his reasons for quitting the party soon

Sitting beside Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Friday, Mukul Roy made it clear that he could not continue in BJP and that is why he decided to return to his old party.

Mamata convenes key party meeting to discuss home coming of turncoats

‘I have quit BJP. Nobody will remain in that party… We will see how many will come to the Trinamul’

This unanimous decision of its legislative party conveys the message that the saffron camp would stick to its polarisation strategy in Bengal

The BJP may have 77 MLAs, making it the primary Opposition party in Bengal in 2021, but its charge against Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamul Congress in the Assembly will have to be led by former Trinamul leaders, a prospect that is making the saffron camp deeply uncomfortable. Although only a handful of Trinamul defectors to the BJP could make it to the Assembly this time, only Suvendu Adhikary and Mukul Roy carry enough political acumen and experience to take on a firebrand leader like chief minis...