Former Railway Minister and senior TMC leader Mukul Roy passed away after suffering a cardiac arrest at a private hospital in Salt Lake, Kolkata. A founding member of the Trinamool Congress, Roy had also served as a Rajya Sabha MP and briefly joined the BJP before returning to TMC

The Uddhav Thackeray-led outfit pointed to murmurs from disgruntled Congress leaders and figures linked to the erstwhile UPA regime, suggesting that the INDIA bloc’s leadership could be entrusted to West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee or Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin