TMC replaces senior leader Mukul Roy from Par panel

Press Trust of India  |  New Delhi 

has removed its senior MP from the parliamentary consutative committee of the Home Ministry, replacing him by its member Manish Gupta.

A letter to this effect has been submitted to the Ministry, party sources said here.


Gupta, earlier a bureaucrat and then a minister in the TMC in West Bengal, was elected to the Upper House for the first time in March this year.

A week back, the party had removed Roy from the chairmanship of the parliamentary standing committee on transport, tourism and culture and replaced him with its leader Derek O'Brien.

Once an influencial voice in the party, Roy's slide started soon after reports of his hobnobbing with leaders reached party supremo and Chief Minister

was removed from the position of party general secretary in 2015 after his name came under scanner in the Saradha chit fund case.

He was also removed from the prime position of the leader of the party in the same year.

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First Published: Mon, September 04 2017. 16:32 IST