Kolkata: Division bench of Calcutta High Court on Thursday has disqualified senior political leader Mukul Roy from the West Bengal Assembly stating that he had violated the anti-defection law.

The division bench of Debangshu Basak Md Shabbar Rashidi observed that Roy’s switch from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to the Trinamool Congress (TMC) after winning the 2021 Krishnanagar North Assembly seat on a BJP ticket must fall under the anti-defection law.

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Notably, Assembly Speaker Biman Bandhopadhyay had earlier refused to cancel Roy’s name from the post of chairman of PAC committee and even refused to disqualify his legislator post. The Court had also set aside the Speaker’s earlier orde

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