IANS/Kolkata
Former Trinamool Congress general secretary Mukul Roy will float his own political party after Eid, his aide and expelled party leader Dipak Ghosh said yesterday. The former central minister, however, declined to confirm the news.
“The draft is ready and we will file the documents for floating the new party with the Election Commission after Eid. Once the formalities are completed, we will make the announcement,” Ghosh told reporters here.
“We are not going for a pan-India presence at the moment. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee renamed TMC as All India Trinamool Congress because she was eyeing the PM’s chair. We have no such ambition,” he said.
Ghosh claimed that several top TMC leaders will defect to Roy’s party.
“We are expecting many from other parties, too. Several informal meetings and informal discussions have taken place in this regard. A formal meeting will be held soon to finalise the positions of people who would be joining the party,” he added.
Roy, however, termed Ghosh’s comments as personal.
“His comments are his own, I have nothing to say about that,” he said.
Once the second-in-command of West Bengal Chief Minister Trinamool and considered the architect of the Trinamool Congress party’s electoral success, Roy was stripped of all party posts and his status worsened after he was questioned by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the multi-crore-rupee Saradha scam.
Going against the party stand that the CBI was targeting Trinamool leaders, Roy insisted that he would co-operate with the probe agency even if it called him a hundred times.
Trinamool Congress MP Mukul Roy speaks during an Iftar party at Nizam Palace in Kolkata yesterday.
