TMC leader Mukul Roy resigns from party’s working committee

25 September, Kolkata

Setting at rest all speculations, West Bengal ruling Trinamool Congress founder member Mukul Roy (Rajya Sabha MP) today resigned from the party’s working committee.

He said he would quit the organisation and the Rajya Sabha post after Durga Puja festival.

Sixty-three-year-old former Indian Railways Minister,  Roy, who as once the confidante to Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in the party affairs, told a media conference in Kolkata that he would explain everything why he took such a decision once he put final paper to dissociate himself with the All India Trinamool Congress and also Rajya Sabha.

Incidentally,  Roy was the first signatory in the formation of AITC on December 17, 1997.

There are speculations that he might join the BJP or float his own new party although Roy has not confirmed what his stand would be.

Roy had been gradually removed from all important positions of Trinamool Congress over the last year.