Contrary to speculation of his being inducted into the Modi cabinet, the fact is Roy met Amit Shah this week to make himself “heard”.
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BJP leader Mukul Roy named in TMC MLA Satyajit Biswas murder case
Kolkata: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mukul Roy was named in a police complaint here on Sunday in the Trinamool Congress legislator Satyajit Biswas murder case, police said. Biswas, a popular Dalit leader, was shot dead by unidentified assailants while he was attending a Saraswati Puja programme in the Nadia district[Read More…]
Bengal: Mukul Roy appointed BJP campaign committee chief
The BJP on Wednesday declared senior leader Mukul Roy as chief of BJP campaign committee for West Bengal. Former, Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader, Mukul Roy is considered as a highly skilled leader and BJP wants to utilise the organisational skills of Roy in the upcoming polls. It is expected that[Read More…]
Police arrests Mukul Roy’s kin for cheating job seekers
Kolkata: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Mukul Roy’s brother-in-law has been arrested from Delhi for allegedly taking money from people on the pretext of getting them jobs in the Indian Railways, police here said on Saturday. Roy, however, described the arrest as a “political conspiracy” against him and his party. “Srijan[Read More…]
Trinamool lacks internal democracy, shrunk Bengal’s political space: Mukul Roy
Former Trinamool Congress heavyweight Mukul Roy, who has switched over to the BJP, on Monday claimed he felt suffocated due to the lack of democracy in his former party and accused it of shrinking the political space in the state like never before. “This (Trinamool) is a one-man party. None[Read More…]
Mukul Roy joining BJP ‘Aaya Ram Gaya Ram’ politics: CPI-M
Dismissing former Trinamool Congress leader Mukul Roy’s crossing over to the BJP as “Aya Ram Gaya Ram’ politics, the CPI-M on Sunday said it would be “suicidal” if anybody harboured thoughts of fighting one of them by joining the other as the two parties “complement each other”. “So many people[Read More…]
People uniting to defeat Trinamool, bring ‘another change’ in Bengal: Mukul Roy
A day after joining the BJP, former Trinamool Congress heavyweight Mukul Roy on Saturday said people of Bengal are getting united to bring about another political change in the 2019 general and 2021 assembly elections. “When the people get united, the change takes place. The people of Bengal are getting[Read More…]
Mukul Roy wishes to join party: BJP
A senior BJP leader on Friday said that Mukul Roy, who had resigned from the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress earlier this month, has expressed his wish to join his party. “Mukul Roy has expressed his wish to our state (West Bengal) unit for joining the BJP. The state unit of[Read More…]
Mukul Roy quits TMC’s working committee; will resign from party after Puja
Rajya Sabha MP and one of the founding members of the Trinamool Congress, Mukul Roy, finally announced his separation from the party. Roy has resigned from the working committee and said he will quit Rajya Sabha and primary membership after Durga Puja. “I was the one who was the first[Read More…]