Hummingbird News Desk
KOLKATA, 8 MAY: BJP’s national vice-president and a senior political leader, Mukul Roy, today dismissed the rumours, asserting that his fight would continue as a “soldier of BJP to restore democracy in our state”.
Once considered the second most powerful leader in the Trinamul Congress before he fell out with its head and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and joined the BJP in 2017, Mr Roy took to Twitter to ruin speculation about his next political move.
“My fight would continue as a soldier of BJP to restore democracy in our state. I would request everyone to put the concoctions and conjectures to rest. I am resolute in my political path,” he tweeted.
The speculation about Mr Roy engaging in parleys with TMC leaders got triggered after he reportedly exchanged pleasantries with TMC’s heavy weight leader Subrata Bakshi.
Mr Roy was also absent from the meeting of the BJP’s newly elected MLAs in the state assembly on Friday.
Mukul Roy’s name is also doing the rounds in political circles as one of the probable candidates who could be elected as the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly.
The other candidate for this post is Suvendu Adhikari, a former key TMC leader who joined the BJP ahead of polls and defeated Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram.
