<p>Kolkata: Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, senior TMC leader Tapas Roy on Monday quit as an MLA, expressing displeasure over the functioning of the party.</p><p>'I have submitted my resignation as an MLA to the assembly speaker. I am now a free bird,' he said.</p><p>Roy, while speaking to media persons, slammed the party leadership for not standing by him when his residence was raided by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in January.</p>
<p>Kolkata: Ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, senior TMC leader Tapas Roy on Monday quit as an MLA, expressing displeasure over the functioning of the party.</p><p>'I have submitted my resignation as an MLA to the assembly speaker. I am now a free bird,' he said.</p><p>Roy, while speaking to media persons, slammed the party leadership for not standing by him when his residence was raided by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in January.</p>