Even as speculation went high about future course of action of a number of Trinamool Congress leaders who had been speaking on rebellious note, senior Trinamool MP Saugato Roy on Sunday made his stand clear saying he would never join the saffron outfit.
Referring to a comment made by Barrackpore BJP MP Arjun Singh also a former TMC leader who joined the saffron party just before the 2019 general elections, Roy said he discounted “statements made by ‘third class’ and bahubali politicians.”
Singh had earlier said that “even Saugato Roy would join the BJP in days to come.” He said that Roy along with five other MPs was going to join BJP. He said that it was “nothing but a part of BJP's campaign. It is BJP IT Cell Head Amit Malviya’s technique to spread a lot of fake news.”
The TMC is already going through an internal crisis with senior mass leader and powerful minister Suvendu Adhikary making statements challenging the leadership. Meanwhile, TMC leader and state minister Suvendu Adhikari's leaving his party is an open question as on various occasions like in Nandigram and Midnapore he has been identified holding public meetings without the party's symbol, flag or banner.
There were words doing the rounds in the State politics that all the TMC leaders who were being investigated in some scam or the other were likely to join the saffron party out of compulsion. Both Adhikary and Roy were being investigated in Narada payoff scam.