Former Railway Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mukul Roy, as soon as a detailed aide of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, died of cardiac arrest at 1:30 am on Sunday at Apollo Hospital in Salt Lake, Kolkata, his son Subhranshu Roy confirmed. Roy, who had been identified with dementia, was affected by a number of illnesses and had been in a coma a couple of days in the past.
Talking to Aaj Tak Bangla, an emotional Subhranshu mentioned, “Every part is over. He died at round 1:30 pm after a large cardiac arrest. It was not potential to convey him again after that.”
Within the final two years, Mukul Roy had been out and in of hospital, together with his well being deteriorating by the day. He had misplaced the flexibility to recognise acquainted faces and was being administered liquid meals by way of a Ryle’s tube. Aaj Tak Bangla has learnt that his final rites will likely be carried out on Monday after his physique is introduced again to his residence.
As soon as a detailed aide of Mamata Banerjee and as soon as thought-about the Trinamool Congress’s second-in-command, Mukul Roy shocked many when he jumped ship to affix the BJP in 2017, barely two years earlier than the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
He performed a vital function in constructing the BJP’s grassroots base in Bengal, reworking it into the state’s principal opposition social gathering. Central to the BJP’s technique within the state, Roy helped the social gathering win 18 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in 2019.
Roy even contested the 2021 Meeting elections on a BJP ticket and received from Krishnanagar. Nonetheless, his affect inside the social gathering within the state quickly started to wane, ultimately main him to rejoin Mamata Banerjee.
Roy left the BJP a month after Suvendu Adhikari turned the Chief of the Opposition in Bengal, following his slim victory over Mamata Banerjee in Nandigram within the final Meeting elections.
Also referred to as the “Chanakya of Bengal politics” for his political acumen, Roy rose by way of the ranks to grow to be the Trinamool Congress’s nationwide basic secretary after co-founding the social gathering with Mamata Banerjee in 1998.
After enjoying a key function in serving to the Trinamool Congress wrest management of Bengal from the Left in 2011, Roy was appointed Minister of State for Transport within the UPA II authorities. He later served as Railway Minister from March to September 2012.
Roy ultimately fell out of favour with Mamata, notably after his title surfaced within the Saradha chit fund rip-off and later when he was caught in a sting operation linked to the Narada case. Following these setbacks, he was faraway from the publish of basic secretary in 2015.
Mukul Roy’s second innings with the Trinamool Congress — or quite his homecoming — was largely uneventful and was minimize quick by his deteriorating well being. He rejoined the social gathering on June 11, 2021, with Mamata Banerjee by his aspect, saying, “Mukul is an previous boy of our household. Outdated is all the time gold.”
In 2023, his battle with dementia turned public when he claimed he was nonetheless a BJP MLA throughout a go to to Delhi. In 2025, the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom disqualified him as a legislator, ruling that his return to the TMC violated the anti-defection legislation.
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