New Delhi / Kolkata: Ruling out the question of alleged kidnapping, BJP MLA from Nadia district Mukul Roy on Wednesday made it clear that he has come to New Delhi at his own will to contact the saffron outfit’s leaders and resume his political activity for the party.
In an exclusive talk with a regional news channel in New Delhi, Roy clarified that he is completely fit now though he suffered Covid attacks thrice earlier.
Stating that the BJP would give a tough fight to West Bengal’s ruling Trinamool Congress in the coming Panchayat Poll, Roy said he was not a part of the Trinamool.
Mentioning that the country is in safe hands with the BJP, Roy said he already had a telephonic talk with Union Home Minister Amit Shah and would like to personally meet him in the days to come.
Roy said he would also call on BJP National President J P Nadda in New Delhi.
“I want to fight the CPI-M and the Congress. You cannot fight them as part of the Trinamool. … Also I want to fight the Trinamool,” Roy said.
Stating that he was always with the BJP, Roy said his son Subhrangshu – now with the Trinamool – should also join the saffron outfit.
He also informed that BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya, who had played a key role in shepherding the party in West Bengal till the state Assembly polls in 2021, had made all arrangements for his stay in the national capital.
Roy clarified that his son filed missing complaints about him in two police stations as he had not taken the family’s consent before coming to New Delhi.
Meanwhile, police have taken his statement in New Delhi in view of the missing complaints lodged by Subhrangshu.
On Monday, amid much speculation about his next political move, Mukul Roy landed in the Delhi airport hours after his son Subhrangshu Roy filed the missing complaints at Bijpore and NSCBI Airport Police stations.
Stating that his father was “untraceable”, Subhrangshu – also a former legislator – filed the missing diaries on Monday night.
Speaking to media persons on Tuesday, Subhrangshu said “Yesterday (Monday) two persons came to our place and took my father away. Neither do I know where he is now nor his destination.
He also indicated that his father had been “kidnapped”.
He claimed that his father has been suffering from dementia and was hospitalised due to this.
The junior Roy said he had rushed to the airport on Monday for the whereabouts of his father. “I requested the CISF and the airport manager that my father should be deboarded if he has boarded any flight. But they paid no heed toy pleas”.
On Tuesday a video of Mukul Roy – who won the Assembly polls from Krishnanagar North seat in 2021 on a BJP ticket but rejoined his old party Trinamool days after the election results – coming out of New Delhi airport had gone viral where the former railway minister was heard telling a reporter that he was in the national capital for some personal issues after the completion of which he will return to Kolkata.
Since then political circles are agog with speculation over Roy’s political future.
The speculations about Roy pitching his lot with the BJP got more wind after BJP leader Anupam Hazra’s cryptic facebook post – ” Pratyavartan” (comeback).
