BJP vice president Mukul Roy returned to Trinamool Congress. Roy, who is a co-founder of Trinamool, returned to TMC a week after Narendra Modi called him. It is worthwhile to note that Modi’s call had come 12 hours after Abhishek Banerjee of TMC had gone to the hospital where Roy’s wife was under treatment for Covid19.

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Mukul Roy said that he was happy that he was welcomed back to TMC. He alleged that he was not allowed to work in BJP. He joined back into TMC in the presence of Abhishek Banerjee and Mamata Banerjee. On Mukul Roy’s return, West Bengal CM and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee commented, “Ghorer chhele ghore phire elo”, meaning that son has returned to his home. She also said that only those who are sober and do not encourage bitterness are welcome, alluding that it would be hard for Suvendu Adhikari to jump back into TMC.

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Mukul Roy stated that West Bengal and TMC were indeed his home and that he was beyond glad that TMC allowed him to return. He said that more turncoats in BJP would follow suit.

On Mukul Roy’s return, a BJP leader-Suraj Singh commented that Mamata Banerejee’s TMC is committing political genocide on BJP party-men.

Mukul’s son Subhranshu Roy also returned to TMC, in a beginning of ghar-wapasi towards Mamata’s party.

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After the victory of TMC in state assembly election, political landscape looks to be consolidating in the favour of Trinamool and Mamata Banerjee. First, the farmer-leaders at national-level chose to come to Kolkata to meet Mamata Banerjee in order to ask her to implement an MSP model for the nation to be emulated. Second, the return of leaders like Mukul Roy back to Trinamool is indicating the shift of balance of power on the federal scale towards regionally relevant parties like TMC.