Mukul Roy, who left Mamata Banerjee’s TMC in 2017 to join the BJP returned to his former party on Friday with son Shubhranshu, ending weeks of speculation.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee welcomed him back and said he was never a traitor like the others.
Roy, the former second-in-command of the TMC who joined the saffron party in November 2017, distanced himself from the BJP in the past few days
He triggered the speculation of going back to the TMC after Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee visited his ailing wife at a Kolkata hospital. The former Railway Minister also skipped a meeting in Kolkata this week called by Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh. He had missed another meeting of BJP legislators called by Ghosh on May 7. Roy's absence in the BJP's feedback and review meet had also fuelled speculation of an imminent rift between him and Suvendu Adhikari.