Confusion about Mukul Roy’s political affiliation deepened on Wednesday as West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee confirmed him as a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislator, while his son Subhranshu Roy cited concern over his illness and Said that his father’s statements should not happen. taken seriously as he is “extremely unwell” and suffers from “dementia and Parkinson’s disease”.
Mukul Rai The drama unfolded in Delhi on Tuesday, even as his son lodged a missing complaint at Kolkata’s NSCBI airport police station on Monday night. Subhranshu Roy said, “I know he has gone to Delhi, but I don’t know where he has gone in Delhi. My father is not feeling well. His phone is also switched off.”
In Delhi, Mukul Roy vowed that he was a BJP MLA and wanted to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP national president JP Nadda.
“I am a BJP MLA. I want to stay with the BJP. The party has made arrangements for my stay here. I want to meet Amit Shah and talk to (party president) JP Nadda,” he told a Bangla news channel late night. want to do.” Tuesday evening.
“I was not keeping well for a long time, so I was away from politics. But now I am fine and will be active in politics again.”
Mukul Roy addressed a press conference in Delhi on Wednesday and said that he was always in the BJP and would fulfill all the responsibilities assigned to him by the party.
“There is no question of resigning from TMC. I’m not even a part of it. I have already resigned from TMC,” Roy said.
He said, “Earlier I was in the BJP and again I will be in the same party. If the BJP assigns me responsibilities, I will fulfill them duly.”
his son Shubhranshu Rai Said that his father has neurological problems and needs immediate medical attention.
Subhranghusu, who is a former MLA, said, “I have heard what my father said. He needs medical attention. He has physical and neurological problems. Those who want to use my father to serve their political interests They should be ashamed of themselves for trying.”
“He is extremely unwell and is suffering from dementia and Parkinson’s disease,” they said.
Mamata Banerjee also reacted to Mukul Roy’s comments and said “Mukul Roy is a BJP MLA, it is his business if he wants to go to Delhi.”
Mukul Roy switched to the BJP and won the 2021 West Bengal assembly elections, returning to the Trinamool Congress citing misbehavior by the BJP leadership. The BJP attempted to revoke Roy’s membership in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly, but Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee rejected the petition, saying Roy was still affiliated with the BJP.
When the disqualification petition was being heard in January, Roy’s lawyers argued that he had never left the BJP and that his visit to the TMC headquarters in June, where he was received by Mamata Banerjee and Abhishek in the presence of the media, was only An excuse was a polite gesture.
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