West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said that Mukul Roy was threatened in the BJP as she issued a warning to defectors, who had joined the BJP ahead of this year’s assembly polls. After welcoming Mukul Roy back to the party, Banerjee said that she would not welcome those who jumped the ship and bad-mouthed the Trinamool Congress ahead of the assembly polls.
The Bengal chief minister said, “Those who criticized the party, betrayed the party before elections for BJP, for money, we will not consider them.” As for Mukul Roy, Banerjee said that he was like her son, adding that the former would continue to play the important role that he discharged before joining the BJP.
Banerjee said that Mukul Roy ‘got a mental peace’ after returning back to the Trinamool Congress. “I saw his health was also getting bad,” she added,
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Roy reportedly told Mamata Banerjee that joining the BJP was a ‘big mistake.’ Roy was instrumental in felicitating the BJP’s popularity in Bengal. His return to the Trinamool would be a huge blow to the saffron party.
There are reports that nearly three dozens BJP MLAs, mostly Trinamool turncoats, are keen to join the party led by Mamata Banerjee in the aftermath of her emphatic victory in the assembly polls.
Last week, Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee had visited a Kolkata hospital to inquire about Mukul Roy’s ailing wife. Abhishek Banerjee, who was recently promoted to a key role within the Trinamool Congress, meeting Mukul Roy had given credence to speculation that all was not well between Mukul Roy and the BJP.
As reported by Janta Ka Reporter earlier, scores of BJP MLAs and other BJP leaders, who left the Trinamool to join the saffron party before the assembly polls, were now keen to return to their old party.
Another Trinamool defector to BJP, Rajib Banerjee, on Tuesday took to Facebook to warn his own party to desist from harassing the Mamata Banerjee government after losing the polls. He wrote in Bengali that constantly harassing the government led by Banerjee with a threat to impose Article 356 in the state would not go down well with the people of Bengal.