In a major development, the Calcutta High Court, today, disqualified senior political leader Mukul Roy from the West Bengal Legislative Assembly over allegations of defection under the tenth schedule of the Constitution.

The Division Bench of Justices Debangsu Basak and Md Shabbar Rashidi held that Roy's switch from the BJP to the Trinamool Congress after winning the 2021 Krishnanagar North seat on a BJP ticket squarely fell under the anti-defection law, terminating his membership of the assembly with immediate effect.

The Court also set aside the Speaker's earlier order, which had refused to act on the disqualification petition, noting that undue delay in deciding such matters violates constitutional duty.

Roy, who had won the 2021 Krishnanagar North seat on a BJP ticket, had joined th

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