TIL Desk/National/Kolkata/ Suspended Trinamool Congress MP Mukul Roy, once a confidant of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, today quit the party and the Rajya Sabha, accusing her of running a one-man show and propagating dynastic politics.
Roy, who was suspended for six years for “anti-party activities” by Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) following his announcement on September 25 that he would resign after Durga Puja, also said that he had never considered the BJP a “communal party”.
“I feel in a party everybody is a comrade and not a servant. And this kind of behaviour is common in every one-man political outfit. “One-man politics is bad for every political party in the country,” the 63-year-old leader told reporters, adding he is leaving the TMC, the party he formed with others, with a heavy heart and much pain.
Roy was speaking after submitting his resignation to Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu. Without naming Banerjee, he said dynastic politics in the party was one of the main reasons for him to leave it.
“There was no atmosphere in the TMC to even raise issues such as dynasty rule,” he said when asked as to why he took so long to take a decision to protest against the so called “dynastic politics” in the party.
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