The Trinamool Congress, led by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, had last week censured him for allegedly hobnobbing with the Bharatiya Janata Party leaders and said it was keeping a close watch on him.
I was the first signatory when the TMC was founded on December 17, 1997. I am announcing with a heavy heart and pain that I will resign from the partys working committee today. I will resign as an MP as well as from the partys primary membership after Durga Puja, Roy, a TMC Rajya Sabha member, told a press conference.