Kolkata: Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Mukul Roy has written to the Union Home Ministry asking him to withdraw the Central security provided to him. However, the ministry has not yet responded to this letter. It may be recalled that a day earlier on Friday, BJP National Vice President Mukul Roy returned to his old party Trinamool Congress along with his son Shubhranshu in a major blow to the saffron party.

Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and other leaders of the state's ruling party welcomed her on her return home. Speculations were rife about Mukul's likely return home after CM Banerjee's nephew and Trinamool MP Abhishek recently met Mukul's wife at a city hospital. After Abhishek's visit, PM Narendra Modi had called to know about Roy's wife's health. According to political observers, PM Modi's move was an attempt to keep Roy in the BJP.

Though Mukul had denied any desire to quit the BJP at that time, he did not attend the BJP's state unit meeting to discuss the alleged violence by Trinamool Congress supporters after the elections. Roy, once the second most prominent leader in the Trinamool, was removed from the post of national general secretary of the TMC in February 2015 after being named in the Narada sting case. After which he joined the BJP in November 2017.

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