Mukul Roy quits as TMC's Rajya Sabha MP

October 11, 2017 16:25

Just in: One-time close aide of West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Mukul Roy, submits his resignation as TMC MP from the Rajya Sabha to vice-president Venkaiah Naidu. Roy has already met finance minister Arun Jaitley and BJPs Bengal in-charge Kailash Vijayvargiya.

Roy had said last month that he would resign from the party after Durga Puja, prompting the TMC to suspend him for six years for anti-party activities.

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.

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