Suspended TMC leader Mukul Roy resigns from Rajya Sabha

New Delhi: The 'ordinary man' turned politician Mukul Roy resigned from the Rajya Sabha post, including primary party posts from Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Wednesday. Though he has not cleared the wind, but sounded tilting to BJP that it has never been a 'communal' party.

Denying all reports over his close proximity with BJP power corridor, suspended TMC leader claimed that during NDA government TMC supremo and then Union Coal Minister Mamata Banerjee asked him to meet RSS top brass.

"Mamata Banerjee had instructed me in 2004 to have a meeting with Sangh leaders. I met them in Kolkata. In 2003, Banerjee had herself met (late VHP leader) Ashok Singhal at her residence. So it is not new for me," Roy mentioned. "Being a national party leader and a Parliamentarian I have been in touch with leaders of all parties like Arun Jaitley, Rahul Gandhi and even Sitaram Yechury," he added.

Though, in the last month Roy had pre-empted the Trinamool plans to suspend him, but after spending two decades with TMC he asserted, "With heavy heart and heavy pain, I am compelled to submit my resignation."

The 63 year old met Rajya Sabha Chairman and Vice President Venkaiah Naidu and submitted his resignation in the afternoon.

Making a scathing attack on TMC leadership Roy said, "We are comrades in a party and not servants. But the one-man parties do not work like that."

Taking a dig to the dynasty politics the former General Secretary of TMC claimed, "It happen with all one-man party and dynasty politics could be one of the factors of my resignation."

Recently, he was questioned once by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) in the Narada case - a sting operation in which 12 Trinamool leaders allegedly accepted cash from a journalist posing as a businessman. While Roy was asked, he claimed however, "It is a job of an investigating agency to enquire."

"All took money with their personal interest. Party's interest is not valid," he further added.

He also recalled that he was one of the signatories when the Election Commission had recognised the TMC as a political party in 1998. "Meanwhile, I am taking rest from the active politics. Will decide the future after Diwali," Roy told newsmen.

Mukul Roy was suspended for six years for "anti-party activities" by the TMC on September, 25.