Will step down if proven I dialled Amit Shah over TMC’s national status, says West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee | Kolkata News

KOLKATA: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said she would resign if it were proven that she had called Union home minister Amit Shah after TMC lost its status as a national party.

At West Bengal’s state secretariat, Banerjee told reporters that her party would continue to go by the name All India Trinamool Congress.

“I will resign if it is proven that I called up Amit Shah over TMC’s national party status,” she told reporters, rejecting Bengal’s leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari‘s claim that she had made the call.
On Tuesday, Adhikari claimed that Banerjee had called Shah to ask him to overturn the Election Commission’s decision to revoke TMC’s national party status.
The state administration will look into the missing complaint made by veteran politician Mukul Roy’s son Subhrangshu about his father, according to the chief minister.

Roy, who his family says is suffering from dementia and Parkinson’s disease, surfaced dramatically in Delhi after the missing person complaint was filed, and claimed that he is a “BJP MP and MLA” and wants to meet Amit Shah.
“Mukul Roy is BJP’s MLA, it’s his affair if he wants to go to Delhi,” Banerjee said.
Roy had won the 2021 West Bengal assembly elections on a BJP ticket after defecting from TMC, but had later crossed back to the party he helped found complaining of ill-treatment at the hands of the saffron party’s leadership.
(With inputs from PTI)