BJP veteran leader Tathagata summoned by ‘top leadership’
The BJP’s top leadership has summoned outspoken party veteran from West Bengal Tathagata Roy to appear before them in New Delhi after he tore into a “foursome” of state and national leaders Thursday morning — this time over random ticket distribution to TMC turncoats, most of whom had lost in the Assembly elections.
Lashing out at national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, state BJP chief Dilip Ghosh, national joint secretary (organisation) Shiv Prakash and national secretary Arvind Menon — who supervised the BJP’s poll preparations in the state — the former Tripura and Meghalaya governor mocked their educational and professional qualifications upto Call 8 and carpenter level respectively in the social media.
In a wild attack on the quartet, Roy alleged on Facebook: “Kailash-Dilip-Shiv-Arvind (KDSA) foursome have dragged the names of our respected Prime Minister and home minister through mud and have sullied the name of the biggest political party in the world. Sitting atop Agarwal Bhavan of Hastings (West Bengal BJP’s election headquarters) and 7-star hotels they have distributed tickets to incoming garbage from Trinamul. Now faced with abuse from party workers, they’re staying put there, hoping the storm will blow over. These people have heaped the worst possible insults on ideologically driven BJP workers and
devout swayamsevaks who had been relentlessly working for the party since 1980s. Now those very people are suffering the worst persecution from Trinamulis.”
He added: “But the KDSA won’t go to their rescue, won’t even exhort them to fight back. Instead, they are trying to draw comfort from having raised the BJP’s tally from 3 to 77. A substandard, uninspired, mercenary bunch of people with no political insight, no analytical abilities, no sense of Bengali sensitivities. Education up to Class 8 and a
fitter mistri’s certificate. What do you expect?”
Roy said: “Some ask why don’t I blame the central leadership? A central leadership in a country of 1.3 billion has to be briefed by the state leadership, who are just clueless. Now I apprehend two exoduses from the state BJP. First of course is of the garbage who came from TMC and will now go back. The second may be the old karyakartas of BJP. Unless they see signs of reform within the party, they will also leave. And that will be the end of BJP in Bengal.”