Mukul Roy, a veteran Trinamool Congress leader, has hinted at rejoining the BJP, saying he wants to meet with party leaders. This comes as Roy travelled to Delhi, with his family initially claiming he was missing. Roy is a founding member of TMC and switched to the BJP in 2017.

Mukul Roy, a veteran leader of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), has hinted at rejoining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India. Roy, who had previously switched to the BJP in 2017 before returning to the TMC, travelled to Delhi for “personal work”, leading to speculation about his whereabouts. His son, also a former TMC member who is now with the BJP, had claimed that Roy was “missing”. Speaking to a Bengali news channel, Roy said he wanted to meet with Amit Shah and J P Nadda, both of whom are BJP leaders. State parliamentary affairs minister Sovandeb Chattopadhyay, also a member of the TMC, accused the BJP of “dirty politics”.