Published on : 13 Nov 2025, 11:56 am 4 min read

The Calcutta High Court on Thursday disqualified the MLA Mukul Roy from the membership of West Bengal State legislature for defecting from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to the All India Trinamool Congress, the ruling political party in West Bengal [Suvendu Adhikari Vs Hon’ble Speaker, West Bengal Legislative Assembly & Ors] .

The Division Bench of Justice Debangsu Basak and Justice Md. Shabbar Rashidi said that it was established that Mukul Roy had defected to Trinamool Congress on June 11, 2021. Thus, it ruled that he had incurred disqualification under the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution.

" The respondent No. 2 is declared to have become disqualified in terms of the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution of India and t

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