Overview
- Mukul Roy was declared disqualified with effect from June 11, 2021, the day he publicly joined the Trinamool Congress after winning on a BJP ticket.
- A division bench of Justices Debangsu Basak and Md Shabbar Rashidi allowed petitions by Suvendu Adhikari and BJP MLA Ambika Roy.
- The bench termed Speaker Biman Banerjee’s earlier decision on Roy’s status as perverse and unsustainable in law.
- The order vacates Roy’s nomination as Public Accounts Committee chair, a post traditionally held by the opposition.
- The Krishnanagar Uttar seat now stands vacant, with officials indicating a bypoll is unlikely due to imminent state assembly elections; lawyers say this may be the first high court-led disqualification under the anti-defection law.