TMC MLA Debashree Roy attends standing committee meeting

TMC MLA Debashree Roy Wednesday attended a standing committee meeting in West Bengal Assembly amidst the ongoing controversy over her failed attempts to join BJP.

Roy was seen attending a standing committee meeting of the information and cultural department at the Assembly on Wednesday.

She, however, declined to speak to the reporters.

TMC secretary general Partha Chatterjee welcomed Roy joining the standing committee meet.

"It is good that she has attended the meeting. It is for her to answer on what she was doing for the last few days," Chatterjee told reporters.

Roy, a national award wining actress and two time TMC MLA, has been in eye of a political storm in Bengal after she had suddenly appeared at the BJP headquarters in New Delhi on August 14.

According to BJP sources she had visited the BJP office following assurance by a senior state party leader that she could switch over to the saffron fold, but was met with opposition from former Kolkata mayor and TMC leader Sovan Chatterjee, who too had joined the party on the same day.

Later on she had also made yet another unsuccesful attempt to meet state BJP president Dilip Ghosh at his residence.

Ghosh, however, later said he has no objection to her joining the party.

According to TMC sources, Roy's joining Standing Committee meeting during the day reflects that her repeated attempts to join BJP has failed due to opposition from Chatterjee.