Those who quit ahead of polls can't return: WB CM

 Addressing a press meet, Banerjee said Roy was threatened in the BJP, and that, in turn, affected his health. "Mukul's return proves that the BJP does not let anyone in peace and puts undue pressure on everyone," the chief minister said. Both Banerjee and Roy claimed that there never had any differences. Asked if her party would be taking back other turncoats, too, Banerjee clarified that the ones who left the TMC to join the BJP just ahead of the April-May assembly elections will not be taken back. 

 Roy, once the second-in-command of the TMC, was removed from the post of the party's national general secretary in February, 2015. He had joined the BJP in November, 2017. Speculation had been rife about Roy's possible homecoming after Banerjee's nephew and TMC MP Abhishek recently visited his wife at a city hospital. PTI