 "Mukul Roy joins Bharatiya Janata Party")
Former railway minister Mukul Roy joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Friday. Roy, a founder member of the Trinamool Congress, had resigned from the Rajya Sabha and quit the Trinamool in October.
Roy is being probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the Saradha chit fund scam. “The law will take its own course,” he said. After its gains in vote share in the 2014 Lok Sabha, the BJP fared poorly in the 2016 Assembly polls in West Bengal.
BJP leaders have said the doors of the party are open to leaders from other parties in states such as Bengal and Odisha, where it wants to bolster its organisation.
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