Tathagata Roy predicts exodus from Bengal BJP unit after election rout

Former Tripura and Meghalaya governor  and senior BJP chief Tathagata Roy on Thursday predicted an exodus of BJP leaders from its West Bengal unit following the occasion’s loss within the recently-concluded Assembly elections, and mentioned it could “be the end of the party” within the state.
Roy, who served as president of the state BJP unit from 2002 to 2006, mentioned the “garbage” who switched to the BJP from the Trinamool Congress forward of the polls would return to the ruling occasion, together with previous karyakartas (staff), who wouldn’t keep except they noticed indicators of reforms throughout the state unit.
Taking to Twitter, Roy referred to as the occasion’s prime leaders within the state — Kailash Vijayvargiya, Dilip Ghosh, Shivprakash and Arvind Menon, whom he dubbed ‘KDSA’ — a “substandard, uninspired, mercenary bunch of people with no political insight, no analytical abilities, no sense of Bengali sensitivities”. He mentioned that they had “dragged the names of (our) respective 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 Trinamool. Now, faced with abuse from party workers, they’re staying put there, hoping the storm will blow over,” he mentioned.
“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 Trinamoolis. But, 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 BJP’s tally from 3 to 77,” Roy added.
Roy mentioned he didn’t blame the central management for the election loss as, in a rustic of 1.3 billion individuals, it was to be briefed by the state management.
Roy mentioned he had been requested by the “topmost party leadership” to journey to Delhi as quickly as attainable.
The TMC returned to energy with a landslide victory final week, successful 213 seats within the 294-member House. The BJP received 77 seats.
Roy, who was additionally a member of the BJP nationwide govt, later served as Governor of three states — Arunachal Pradesh, Tripura and Meghalaya — between 2016 and 2020.