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Suvendu Adhikari goes after Mukul Roy with the anti-defection regulation and the case appears weak for Mukul Roy

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What West Bengal has lacked beneath the reign of Mamata Banerjee is a stable opposition that retains the ruling regime on its toes. With the BJP profitable 77 seats within the state – Mamata Banerjee might be dealing with opposition all through her tenure, and issues is not going to be as rosy as they’ve been for her since 2011. Perhaps, Mukul Roy, previous to leaping ship to the TMC didn’t calculate the ramifications of his transfer. Now the complete pressure of Bengal BJP is coming down on him, and the saffron social gathering is looking for disqualification of Roy from his MLA submit beneath the anti-defection regulation.Suvendu Adhikari – the chief of opposition in West Bengal’s meeting had beforehand given Mukul Roy 48 hours to resign as an MLA of the Krishnanagar Uttar meeting constituency. In response, Roy mentioned that he wouldn’t step down from the submit of MLA. Now, Suvendu Adhikari and the Bengal BJP are going all out of their effort to have Mukul Roy disqualified as an MLA – since he jumped ship as a legislator from the BJP to the TMC.The anti-defection regulation applies to him, and the BJP’s Bengal state unit has the backing of the Governor on that depend. “Being the Constitutional head of the state, let me make it clear that anti-defection law is applicable in full force in Bengal. It is as much applicable here as in other parts of the country,” Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar had mentioned in response to the letter submitted to him by BJP MLAs.This was after Suvendu Adhikari had instructed the Governor that “Todna-Jodna is part of TMC’s dirty politics. They have been doing this for the past 10 years and nobody opposed it. But it is being opposed now and action will be taken under the anti-defection law.” In the newest information, Suvendu Adhikari has despatched a petition to the Speaker looking for disqualification of Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mukul Roy because the MLA from Krishnanagar Uttar constituency.The Bengal BJP camp had been making ready since Thursday to ship the petition looking for Mukul Roy’s disqualification because the Krishnanagar Uttar MLA and had consulted its attorneys for the aim. Manoj Tigga, BJP’s chief whip within the meeting, submitted the petition to Biman Banerjee on Friday.According to Times Now, it’s learnt that the BJP can be keen to go to court docket towards Mukul Roy. The freshly inducted TMC chief is now on a sticky wicket, and his case is weak at finest. If the Speaker succumbs to TMC stress and doesn’t disqualify Mukul Roy, the BJP appears ready to wage a authorized battle towards Roy and the TMC.Interestingly, Suvendu Adhikari is main the struggle towards Mukul Roy – a transparent assertion by the BJP that the previous Mamata right-hand man is now the saffron social gathering’s face in West Bengal.