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Kolkata: Former Tripura and Meghalaya governor Tathagata Roy has said the BJP’s West Bengal unit and its electoral prospects in this year’s assembly polls have been “hugely damaged” by party leader Kailash Vijayvargiya and his “failed” strategies.
Vijayvargiya is the Bengal in-charge of the BJP.
Roy told ThePrint that a group of leaders not only harmed the Bengal BJP but also hurt the interests of the state. Roy said he had submitted a 10-page report to party president JP Nadda in June, which he now wants to release “to show how some leaders worked completely against the party”.
“The report which I submitted to our national president four months ago is of explosive nature. It has accounts of our party workers and local leaders, some documents and evidences which prove how this pack of leaders not only caused damage to Bengal BJP but also caused some irreparable damage to the state. When the time is right, I will make some documents public.
Claiming that as an “ordinary Hindu Bengali and a proud BJP member”, he has nothing to lose politically and otherwise, Roy said, “I will speak the truth. Nothing stops me from doing so.” I have never received any strictness from my top leadership. It is my duty to inform them and I have done. I am with the grassroot workers of BJP. They are in touch with me. They are helpless. I will stand by them, but Not with those who destroyed the bright opportunities of BJP here in this election.
In a series of tweets on Monday, Roy also tweeted a picture of Vijayvargiya with a pug, which had a line in Bengali that read: “Vodafone is in Bengal again.”
https://t.co/dzfBnLVJVu pic.twitter.com/cyrJobXBAv
— Tathagata Roy (@tathagata2) October 25, 2021
Roy said he posted these images of an “Indian, Hindu and Bengali” person who is a “proud and ordinary member of the BJP”.
Senior BJP leader and Bengal co-in-charge Amit Malviya termed such a tweet by a senior functionary as “disappointing”.
BJP leaders sought to quash Roy’s allegations, claiming off the record to ThePrint that he was upset with the party leadership as they did not field him in the assembly elections and even denied him any post in the organisation. not given.
ThePrint reached Vijayvargiya on his mobile via text messages and calls, but was yet to receive a response till the time of publication of this report.
not the first time
Vijayvargiya, who is still in charge of West Bengal, was entrusted with the responsibility of managing and supervising the Bengal elections. But he has not returned to the state after the elections were over.
The tussle between Vijayvargiya and Roy is not new. Roy criticized Vijayvargiya had earlier said that the latter, along with other senior leaders, had “defamed the name of the world’s largest political party”.
Kailash-Dilip-Shiv-Arvind (KDSA) has dragged the name of our respected Prime Minister and Home Minister through the mud and defamed the name of the world’s largest political party. Sitting atop Agarwal Bhavan in Hastings (Election Headquarters of West Bengal BJP)
— Tathagata Roy (@tathagata2) 6 May 2021
he also had Slammed Thanks to Vijayvargiya and former state BJP chief Dilip Ghosh for giving tickets to film and TV actors who ultimately failed to win votes.
The ongoing row is just the latest in a series of controversies involving the former governor, who is known for making provocative statements.
In 2019, after the Pulwama attack, Roy supported the call of “”.boycott all kashmiriHe was the Governor of Meghalaya at the time. He also courted controversy for his tweets defaming Bengalis, where he said His greatness was long overdue and he was either a “sweeping floor” or working as a “bar dancer” in Mumbai.
(Edited by Neha Mahajan)
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