Veteran Trinamool Congress leader Tapas Roy quits as MLA

04 Mar 2024 Evaluate

Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, veteran Trinamool Congress leader Tapas Roy has resigned from the party and membership of the West Bengal Assembly. He submitted his resignation to West Bengal Assembly Speaker Biman Bandopadhyay today. 

Tapas Roy is the deputy chief whip of the ruling party in the Assembly and president of the TMC’s Dumdum-Barrackpore organisational district. He is an MLA from Baranagar assembly seat. Tapas Roy said, ‘Trinamool Congress is not for me anymore. I am a free bird. I will let you all know about my next course of action later.’ He further said, ‘I am really disappointed with the way the party is functioning. I am fed up with so many allegations of corruption levelled against the party and the government. Secondly, I do not support the way the Sandeshkhali issue was handled’. Roy also expressed his sadness that no one from his party called him or his family up after the ED raided his home on January 12. ED officials had raided his home in connection with a recruitment scam in civic bodies. 

Meanwhile, speculations are rife that Roy may join the BJP shortly and contest against sitting TMC MP and parliamentary party leader Sudip Bandopadhyay in the North Kolkata seat. Criticising  Roy’s resignation, TMC youth wing general secretary Debangshu Bhattacharya quipped, ‘Why did he decide to leave the party just 15 days before the Lok Sabha elections are set to be announced?’.


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