In Pics | BJP leader Mukul Roy, his son Subranshu join TMC after quitting BJP

In a blow to the saffron brigade, senior BJP leader Mukul Roy along with son Subranshu rejoined the TMC on June 11. They joined in the presence of Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and other leaders of the state's ruling party.(Image Credit: PTI Photos)

In a blow to the saffron brigade, senior BJP leader Mukul Roy along with son Subranshu rejoined the TMC on June 11.

Mukul and his son Subranshu joined TMC with Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and other leaders of the state's ruling party’s presence.

Roy, who held the position of the national vice president in BJP, said he was

Addressing a press meet, Banerjee said Roy was threatened in the BJP, and that, in turn, affected his health.

Asked if her party would be taking back other turncoats, too, Banerjee clarified that the ones who left the TMC to join the BJP just ahead of the April-May assembly elections will not be taken back.

Roy, once the second-in-command of the TMC, was removed from the post of the party's national general secretary in February, 2015. He had joined the BJP in November, 2017.

Speculation had been rife about Roy's possible homecoming after Banerjee's nephew and TMC MP Abhishek recently visited his wife at a city hospital.

BJP leader Mukul Roy addresses the gathered media after joining TMC in Kolkata on June 11, 2021.