Exclusive | 'Not Important What BJP Did, Why Couldn’t TMC Retain its Flock?': Rebel MP Satabdi Roy |
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New Delhi: Amid the disintegration of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) with MLAs and MPs deserting former chief minister Mamata Banerjee, rebel Lok Sabha MP Satabdi Roy on June 12 dismissed the role played by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The four-term Lok Sabha MP from West Bengal’s Birbhum, who is being seen as one of the principle architects of the TMC’s parliamentary rebellion said that it is not important what the BJP did, and questioned why the TMC could not retain so many of its leaders after the 2026 assembly election defeat as dozens of MLAs and MPs deserted it.
“When a third person becomes involved between a husband and a wife, the society blames the third person. But how much is that person at fault? There must have been a vacuum between the two, which allowed a third person to come in,” Roy said in a telephonic interview with The Wire.
“What the BJP did is not important, what the party (TMC) did is important. Why couldn’t the party retain so many people?”
Roy’s statement comes as a list of MPs seen by The Wire emerged on Friday who have written to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla seeking to be a separate faction of the TMC. Apart from Roy who served as the deputy leader of the TMC in the house, the signatories on the list include:
Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar,
Deepak Adhikari (Dev),
On June 9, as former........