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The Calcutta High Court connected Thursday (November 13, 2025) disqualified elder governmental person Mukul Roy from rank of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly pursuing his defection to the Trinamool Congress aft winning the Assembly polls connected a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) summons implicit 4 years ago.
A Division Bench of Justice Debangsu Basak and Justice Md. Shabbar Rashidi said that fixed the facts and circumstances of the case, it has been established that Mr. Roy defected from the BJP to the Trinamool connected June 11, 2021. It held that specified enactment has incurred the disqualification contemplated nether the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution.
“The responsive No. 2 is declared to person go disqualified successful presumption of the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution of India and the Rules of 1986 with effect from June 11, 2021,” the tribunal said.
The tribunal further said that since Mr. Roy is declared to person suffered disqualification with effect from June 11, 2021, his information arsenic Chairman of Public Accounts Committee has besides been acceptable aside.
Mr. Roy had joined the Trinamool Congress successful June 2021 aft being elected arsenic an MLA from the Krishnanagar Uttar constituency connected a BJP ticket.
Earlier this year, Leader of the Opposition successful the West Bengal Assembly and BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari had submitted a written effect earlier the Calcutta High Court concerning the defection of BJP MLAs to the Trinamool Congress.
Since the Trinamool came to powerfulness successful West Bengal successful 2011, astir 50 MLAs from Opposition parties, including the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Congress, and much recently, the BJP, joined the Trinamool and continued to enactment successful Assembly proceedings.
“Over 50 MLAs since 2011 defected to the Trinamool and the Assembly Speaker did not disqualify their rank from the legislature. It was a four-year-long fight. Finally, the Constitution triumphed. I was the applicant arsenic Leader of Opposition,” Mr. Adhikari said connected Thursday (November 13, 2025).
