Kolkata, Nov. 14 -- The Calcutta high court disqualified Trinamool Congress leader Mukul Roy as a member of the West Bengal legislative assembly on Thursday saying he violated anti-defection law, Bharatiya Janata Party's Suvendu Adhikari, who filed the petition in 2023 as the assembly's leader of the opposition, said. Roy was elected as a BJP candidate from the Krishnanagar North seat in Nadia district in the March-April 2021 assembly polls. He joined the TMC on June 11, 2021. This is the first time an MLA from West Bengal has been disqualified by a court, a power vested only in the speaker of the Parliament or that of a state legislative assembly by the 10th Schedule of the Constitution, several MLAs said. The division bench of Justice Debangshu Basak and Justice Md. Shabbar Rashidi cited rules in the 10th Schedule on Thursday and said Roy violated the anti-defection law, lawyers who attended the hearing said. The bench nullified rulings by assembly speaker Biman Banerjee who earlier refused to disqualify Roy or remove him as member of the House's from the Public Accounts Committee. "This is a victory for our Constitution. The speaker never took any action under anti-defection law. Hence, we moved court," Adhikari told the media after Thursday's verdict....