BJP lost Bengal as Dilip Ghosh, Kailash Vijayvargiya gave tickets to TMC’s ‘incoming garbage’: Tathagata Roy
BJP's central leadership summoned Tathagata Roy in Delhi after making explosive remarks about the party's star candidates through tweets.
Though BJP leaders had claimed that they would form the government in Bengal with more than 200 of the 294 seats this time, they could only manage to win 77 seats. Roy, the former governor of Tripura and Meghalaya, like many other party members have held certain leaders, including people like the ones mentioned by him, for the loss.
He blamed state BJP chief Dilip Ghosh and the party’s state in-charge Kailash Vijayvargiya for the BJP’s defeat in the West Bengal Assembly election.
Hitting out at the two leaders, Tathagata Roy said their poor decisions, especially in selection of candidates, were responsible for the BJP’s poll debacle in West Bengal.
Roy, who describes himself as a swayamsevak, said the four distributed tickets to “incoming garbage” from Trinamool and added that BJP would now face an exodus of the “garbage” and also old party karyakartas let down by Bengal BJP brass.
Sources in the BJP said the public display of Roy’s rage did not go down well with the central leadership.
“I have been asked by the topmost part leadership to come to Delhi ASAP. This is for general information,” Roy wrote on his Twitter handle on Thursday.
