Missing in action

The Trinamool Congress' (TMC) parliamentary party chief, Mukul Roy, doesn't find a place in a new committee the party has set up to chalk out House strategy. The members of the committee include Lok Sabha MPs Saugata Roy and Sultan Ahmed, and Rajya Sabha members Derek O'Brien and Sukhendu Roy. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's nephew and Diamond Harbour MP Abhishek Banerjee is among the special invitees to the panel. Many within the party said Mukul Roy's absence from the team wasn't a big surprise since he had been stripped of many of his responsibilities and that while he retained his position as the leader of TMC in the Rajya Sabha, he was not being invited to any of its meetings. Interestingly, Mukul Roy was conspicuous by his absence from the protest by Trinamool MPs against the land ordinance.