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Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee shrugged off 'l'affaire' Mukul Roy - the desertion and flight to Delhi - by her ailing trusted lieutenant for a second time, simply stating on Wednesday that the maverick politician "is BJP's MLA"

Bengal BJP MLA Biswajit Das, today switched to the ruling Trinamool Congress, becoming the third BJP lawmaker to return since Mamata Banerjee's big victory in the April-May state polls.

The ghar wapsi, or homecoming, of Mukul Roy is part of the Trinamool Congress' strategy to strike while the iron is hot and demolish the BJP in Bengal, where it still has 18 Lok Sabha MPs, ahead of the 2024 election

Mukul Roy, the BJP's first import from Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress in Bengal, returned to his former party today along with son Shubhranshu, to a much warmer welcome than he may have expected.

BJP leader Mukul Roy has added to his party's nervousness by skipping a key meeting in Kolkata. His silence on speculation that he is heading back to Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress has not helped.

One of the biggest challenges faced by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in the months leading up to the state election was the massive exodus of her party's leaders to the BJP.

Bengal votes today in the Assembly election sixth phase amid a grim surge in Covid cases. Polling will take place for 43 seats across four districts, with the BJP's Mukul Roy - the first member of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool to quit.

Five former Trinamool Congress leaders met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi on Saturday after being flown in to join the BJP in the latest round of defections from West Bengal's ruling party ahead of the state elections due in April-May.

In a dual attack on the BJP - her key opponent in the upcoming state polls - and her former colleagues who recently switched sides, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that party was now the "Bharatiya Junk Party" which inducts "rotten" members from other parties.

The BJP held its first roadshow in Kolkata on Monday. But, the national party's show of strength did not get off to a smooth start as the police delayed giving permission. It then sanctioned a different route, where at least one shoe was reportedly thrown at the lead vehicle carrying in it top leaders including Kailash Vijayvargiya, Mukul Roy, Arju...

BJP national vice-president Mukul Roy claimed on Tuesday that TMC will not get even 100 seats out of the total 294 in the West Bengal assembly polls in 2021.

BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya and senior leaders Mukul Roy and Joy Prakash Majumder were on Friday taken to preventive custody during the start of a pro-CAA rally in Kolkata.

BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya and senior leaders Mukul Roy and Joy Prakash Majumder taken into preventive custody just as they started a march in support of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) in Kolkata.

A senior BJP leader was heckled, slapped, pushed and kicked into bushes by the side of a road in Islampur amid bypolls to three assembly seats in West Bengal on Monday. Jay Prakash Majumdar, also the party candidate for the Karimpur assembly seat, was visiting polling stations when the incident occurred near a local school around 10:30 am.

BJP leader Mukul Roy has said that the West Bengal government should apologise to Governor Jagdeep Dhankar after the latter was allegedly "insulted" at a Durga Puja carnival in Kolkata in which Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was also present.

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee shrugged off 'l'affaire' Mukul Roy - the desertion and flight to Delhi - by her ailing trusted lieutenant for a second time, simply stating on Wednesday that the maverick politician "is BJP's MLA"

Bengal BJP MLA Biswajit Das, today switched to the ruling Trinamool Congress, becoming the third BJP lawmaker to return since Mamata Banerjee's big victory in the April-May state polls.

The ghar wapsi, or homecoming, of Mukul Roy is part of the Trinamool Congress' strategy to strike while the iron is hot and demolish the BJP in Bengal, where it still has 18 Lok Sabha MPs, ahead of the 2024 election

Mukul Roy, the BJP's first import from Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress in Bengal, returned to his former party today along with son Shubhranshu, to a much warmer welcome than he may have expected.

BJP leader Mukul Roy has added to his party's nervousness by skipping a key meeting in Kolkata. His silence on speculation that he is heading back to Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress has not helped.

One of the biggest challenges faced by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in the months leading up to the state election was the massive exodus of her party's leaders to the BJP.

Bengal votes today in the Assembly election sixth phase amid a grim surge in Covid cases. Polling will take place for 43 seats across four districts, with the BJP's Mukul Roy - the first member of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool to quit.

Five former Trinamool Congress leaders met Union Home Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi on Saturday after being flown in to join the BJP in the latest round of defections from West Bengal's ruling party ahead of the state elections due in April-May.

In a dual attack on the BJP - her key opponent in the upcoming state polls - and her former colleagues who recently switched sides, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said that party was now the "Bharatiya Junk Party" which inducts "rotten" members from other parties.

The BJP held its first roadshow in Kolkata on Monday. But, the national party's show of strength did not get off to a smooth start as the police delayed giving permission. It then sanctioned a different route, where at least one shoe was reportedly thrown at the lead vehicle carrying in it top leaders including Kailash Vijayvargiya, Mukul Roy, Arju...

BJP national vice-president Mukul Roy claimed on Tuesday that TMC will not get even 100 seats out of the total 294 in the West Bengal assembly polls in 2021.

BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya and senior leaders Mukul Roy and Joy Prakash Majumder were on Friday taken to preventive custody during the start of a pro-CAA rally in Kolkata.

BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya and senior leaders Mukul Roy and Joy Prakash Majumder taken into preventive custody just as they started a march in support of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA) in Kolkata.

A senior BJP leader was heckled, slapped, pushed and kicked into bushes by the side of a road in Islampur amid bypolls to three assembly seats in West Bengal on Monday. Jay Prakash Majumdar, also the party candidate for the Karimpur assembly seat, was visiting polling stations when the incident occurred near a local school around 10:30 am.

BJP leader Mukul Roy has said that the West Bengal government should apologise to Governor Jagdeep Dhankar after the latter was allegedly "insulted" at a Durga Puja carnival in Kolkata in which Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was also present.