Tapas Roy leaves Trinamool
Senior All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) leader and MLA from North 24 Parganas’ Baranagar Tapas Roy resigned from his membership of the Assembly today.
In an address to the press he said that he had resigned from all posts of the party on March 1 and has now resigned as a member of the state legislature.
This drastic move from a senior AITC leader comes at a time when party spokesperson and journalist Kunal Ghosh has upped the ante against MP from North Kolkata Sudip Bandyopadhyay, calling him corrupt and even going to the extent of urging the CBI and ED to investigate him.
It is a well-known fact in the power corridors of the North Kolkata parliamentary constituency that Roy and Bandyopadhyay have always been at loggerheads.
Speculations are rife on the senior politician joining the BJP and contesting the general election.
Another interesting factor is that of Dum Dum MP Saugata Roy’s recent statement to the media, wherein he said that he was not sure whether the party would give him a ticket this time, and whether he would win, even if given a ticket.
Incidentally, Tapas Roy’s assembly constituency of Baranagar falls within the Dum Dum parliamentary constituency.
