West Bengal MLA Mukul Roy, who had joined the Trinamool Congress days after profitable the meeting election seat on BJP ticket, stirred contemporary controversy on Friday by saying for the second time inside every week that the saffron celebration will win a future by-election in his constituency.

He, nevertheless, mentioned that the TMC will do properly within the 2023 meeting elections in Tripura.

Senior TMC chief Tapas Roy refused to touch upon Roy’s gaffe, whereas the BJP mentioned that the folks will decide such statements. Mukul Roy on August 6 had mentioned in a press convention at Krishnanagar in Nadia district that the BJP will win the by-poll within the state. Realising his fake pas, he rapidly corrected himself saying he truly meant the TMC.

The senior politician had left the Mamata Banerjee-led celebration in 2017 to affix the BJP and returned to the TMC round a month after the outcomes of the meeting elections had been declared on May 2.

However, formally he’s nonetheless the BJP MLA of Krishnanagar North constituency and has been made the chairman of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of the state Assembly. ‘The BJP will win if a by-election is held in Krishnanagar North,’ Roy instructed reporters after attending a PAC assembly within the meeting premises.

To a query if the TMC will be unable to win the seat, he mentioned it is going to be determined by the folks of that constituency.

Asked he was the legislator of which celebration, Roy mentioned, ‘I’m an MLA of the BJP.’ Roy mentioned he is able to go to Tripura to work for the TMC if requested by the celebration.

‘I’ll do no matter is instructed by the celebration. The BJP shouldn’t be doing the precise factor in Tripura. Our celebration will do properly within the subsequent polls there,’ he added.

At least 14 leaders and employees of the TMC, together with these injured in an alleged assault by BJP employees, had been arrested in Tripura on August 8 for ‘violating Covid norms’. Two different TMC employees had been nabbed on August 11.

Senior TMC leaders from West Bengal are of late visiting the NE state the place the meeting election is due in 2023.

Asked to touch upon Roy’s statements, TMC Deputy Chief Whip in West Bengal meeting Tapas Roy instructed reporters: ‘It shall be correct so that you can ask Mukul Roy what he meant. Since I used to be not current throughout the interplay, I will not remark.’ Tapas Roy mentioned that he attended Friday’s PAC assembly chaired by Mukul Roy.

BJP MLA and chief of the opposition Suvendu Adhikari mentioned Roy was greeted with a lot fanfare when he reached the TMC workplace to affix after profitable on BJP ticket.

‘Now if he makes such statements, it’s for folks of the state to guage. He was accorded excessive safety by the state authorities, he was made the PAC chairman. Now let the TMC see,’ he mentioned.

The BJP has demanded disqualification of Roy as a member of the meeting beneath anti-defection regulation and his removing from the submit of PAC chairman which historically goes to the opposition celebration.

The TMC management has been saying that Roy is a BJP MLA and therefore his appointment because the PAC chairman will not pose any downside on technical floor. 

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