Kolkata, Nov 13 (PTI) In a twist steeped in political irony, the Calcutta High Court on Thursday disqualified senior TMC leader Mukul Roy as MLA under the anti-defection law, the very statute he once navigated, bent and weaponised at the height of his influence as one of the most formidable political organisers of West Bengal.

The court noted that Roy, elected from Krishnanagar Uttar on a BJP ticket in the 2021 Assembly polls, defected to the TMC on June 11 that year by declaring his return at a press conference. Photographs, videos, press statements and his own admissions were deemed sufficient to establish the switch.

But the verdict comes at a time when the once indomitable strategist, often hailed as the “Chanakya of Bengal politics” in the post-Left Front era, is a shadow of his for

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