India, Nov. 14 -- In a first-of-its-kind order where the membership of an elected representative was judicially disqualified, the Calcutta High Court on Thursday ordered the disqualification of senior Trinamool Congress leader Mukul Roy from the Bengal Legislative Assembly.

Roy, a close aide of Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and a former railway minister during the UPA regime before he subsequently joined the BJP, had entered the Bengal Assembly on a saffron ticket in the 2021 State elections. He won from the Krishnagar North seat. He was subsequently appointed as Chairman of the PAC in the State Assembly.

However, within a couple of months, he returned to the Trinamool Congress in June 2021, prompting the Opposition BJP to deman...