Mukul Roy joins BJP
New Delhi, Nov 3 (IBNS): Former Railway Minister Mukul Roy on Friday joined the ruling Bharatiya Jata Party (BJP).
Speaking at the event where Roy was inducted to the BJP, union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said :"We wholeheartedly welcome him."
Prasad expressed his hope that Roy's induction in the party will help the BJP in expanding its footprint in West Bengal.
"I am sure his coming to the party will help in expanding the BJP," he said.
Mukul Roy, who was suspended from the Trinamool Congress (TMC), quit as the Rajya Sabha MP last month.
Speaking at the event, Roy said: "I believe that BJP is a secular force. It is not at all a communal force."
The Trinamool Congress in September suspended former Railway Minister Mukul Roy for six years for 'anti party activities'.
Roy, one of the founding leaders of the Trinamool Congress, had long been regarded the second-in-command of the party after Mamata Banerjee
and the architect of TMC's organisational and electoral success in the state.
However, he fell from the grace of Banerjee following his interrogation by the CBI in connection with the multi-crore Sarada chit fund scam.
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