The Calcutta High Court on Thursday disqualified Trinamool Congress leader Mukul Roy from the West Bengal Assembly for defecting from the Bharatiya Janata Party, Bar and Bench reported.

A division bench of Justices Debangsu Basak and Mohammad Shabbar Rashidi also set aside Roy’s nomination as the chairman of the public accounts committee of the state Assembly.

The public accounts committee audits the revenue and expenditure of the government. Rules mandate that the panel should be headed by a legislator of the main Opposition party.

In June 2021, Roy defected to the Trinamool Congress months after winning the Krishnanagar Uttar Assembly constituency on a BJP ticket.

Roy was one of the earliest members of the Trinamool Congress when it was founded in 1997, but joined the BJP

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