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TMC suspends Mukul Roy for six years for 'anti-party activities' after he expressed desire to quit

Mukul Roy will be revealing his political plans after Durga Puja.

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 Trinamool Congress (TMC) Rajya Sabha MP and former railway minister Mukul Roy was on Monday suspended from the party for six years for "anti-party activities", TMC secretary general Partha Chatterjee said.

"He (Roy) has been trying to weaken the party for quite some time. The party's disciplinary committee has discussed the issue and recommended punishment for him to TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee," he said. Shortly after Roy announced that he would tender his resignation from the party's working committee today, Chatterjee told reporters that the Rajya Sabha member had been suspended from the party for six years for "anti-party activities".
Roy also told reporters that he would resign from the Upper House of Parliament and give up the primary membership of the party after Durga Puja.

"If he (Roy) wants to leave, why isn't he leaving now? What is stopping him?" Chatterjee asked. 

Earlier in the day, Mukul Roy expressed his desire to quit TMC. "I was one the signatories when the party was founded. I am announcing with a heavy heart that I will resign from the party's working committee today. "And after the Durga Puja festival, I will resign from the Rajya Sabha and also from the primary membership of the party," Roy said at a press conference.

Roy, whose relationship with the leadership has been strained of late, said he would give an explanation on why he was leaving the party and why he was "forced to do so" after Durga Puja. The TMC, the ruling party in West Bengal, had last week censured Roy for allegedly hobnobbing with BJP leaders and said it was keeping a close watch on him. Asked whether he would join the BJP in days to come, Roy said, "Whatever I have to say. I will say it after Durga Puja.

But I would like to mention that people of Bengal don't like political controversies during Durga Puja,". Once the second-in-command in the TMC after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Roy was absent from an event to unveil the Durga Puja edition of the TMC mouthpiece, Jago Bangla, on September 19. Banerjee and the entire TMC top brass, barring Roy, was present at the event. Roy was recently removed as the TMC vice president after the party decided to restructure its committee. He was earlier removed as the party's in-charge of Tripura, where the TMC was steadily making inroads till its members switched over to the BJP earlier this year.

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