The Calcutta High Court on Thursday revoked the membership of the West Bengal Assembly Supreme Leader Mukul Roy under the Anti-Defection Act, as reported by PTI.
Roy was elected to the House on a BJP ticket in May 2021, but joined the ruling Trinamool Congress in August of that year in the presence of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee.
A division bench headed by Justice Debangsu Basak disqualified Roy as a member of the state assembly and passed the judgment on petitions by Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari and BJP MLA Ambika Roy.
Adhikari filed an application in the high court challenging Assembly Speaker Biman Banerjee’s decision rejecting his plea to disqualify Roy under the Anti-Defection Act, claiming that he defected to the ruling TMC after being elected on a BJP ticket.
