Mukul Roy returns to TMC, does this mean other turncoats are likely to return?

Mukul Roy, the BJP's national vice president, has returned to the Trinamool Congress in the presence of Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday, along with his son Subhranshu, causing Trinamool senior leaders to proclaim it the "beginning of the end for the BJP in Bengal."

Mukul Roy's return reignited suspicion that numerous politicians who crossed sides before of the assembly elections were on their way back to TMC.

In the previous two years, at least 34 TMC members and former legislators have joined the BJP. However, only five of the 19 people who were awarded assembly tickets won.

Former assembly deputy speaker Sonali Guha, former member Dipendu Biswas, and leader Sarala Murmu have all shown an interest in returning. Others, including as Rajib Banerjee, a former forest minister, have all condemned the BJP.

Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on the other hand has made it plain on Friday that the party would not tolerate all party traitors.

Banerjee has said that those who abandoned the party before of the polls in order to bolster the BJP and viciously attacked the TMC throughout the campaign will not be forgiven.

She explained that Mukul Roy never launched an attack on the TMC. Some leaders, on the other hand, may have accompanied Mukul and wish to return. On this she said, the party will make a decision.

Abhishek Banerjee, Ms Banerjee's nephew and the Trinamool's new General Secretary, had paid a visit to the hospital where Mr Roy's wife was being hospitalized for Covid-19 last week.

Roy's defection from the BJP might result in a torrent of BJP members defecting to the TMC. Most of the traitors are said to be afraid of losing their political clout if they stay in the opposition camp.