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TMC enjoying soiled vendetta politics to counter BJP surge, says Vijayvargiya

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A day after the arrest of West Bengal BJP chief Rakesh Singh in a drug case, the celebration’s nationwide normal secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Wednesday accused the Mamata Banerjee authorities of enjoying “dirty vendetta politics”.
“The Mamata Banerjee government is playing dirty vendetta politics. Rakesh Singh is a popular and efficient leader with a trade union background and support of thousands of workers in Kolkata. So, cases are being framed against him,” Vijavargiya instructed The Indian Express in a short interview.
Vijayvargiya, the BJP in-charge of West Bengal, stated there have been “weird charges” in opposition to him additionally. “I do not know what all I have been accused of. I am allegedly a child seller, rapist and various other things. Now every morning I get up preparing myself to face any kind of weird accusation,” the BJP chief stated, including that he has even quipped to the celebration management that whereas safety personnel might defend his life, his dignity too faces a risk.

Singh, a BJP state committee member and the convener of the celebration’s Basti cell, was arrested in reference to the arrest of Pamela Goswami, BJP Yuva Morcha state secretary, for possession of 76 gm of heroin. Goswami has alleged that Singh had hatched a conspiracy to border her. She additionally named Vijayvargiya as a pacesetter near Singh.
Asked concerning the stories, Vijavargiya stated, “Who is this Pamela Goswami? I don’t even know her. What leader is she? I do not think such allegations are worth a reaction.”
He added, “It appears she is below a number of stress accountable BJP leaders. That is the same old apply right here. They (the TMC) blackmail individuals, arrest them and put stress on them to call celebration leaders. This is the soiled sport they play to counter the BJP’s political surge.
“Now BJP leader Arjun Singh, who was ‘pure’ when he was with the TMC, has 104 cases against him, and there are over 60 cases against (former TMC leader and current BJP vice president) Mukul Roy,” he identified.
Vijavargiya added that cases like Goswami’s prices have resulted within the BJP being “on guard” over the movement of individuals into the celebration. “We have not only stopped taking every leader who wants to join us, but also put some scrutiny on those whom we are inducting. It has been in place since last month,” he stated.
He stated the state police used to additionally work on the behest of the TMC authorities. “But now things are slowly changing, they are becoming a bit balanced,” he stated.
The BJP chief additionally insisted that current strikes by the CBI and ED in opposition to TMC leaders had been lengthy pending. “It’s just a coincidence that the action comes now. The investigations have been on for a while,” he stated.
Vijavargiya stated the BJP, which is making deep inroads throughout West Bengal, will in its campaigns give attention to three points — the failures of the TMC authorities, its corruption, nepotism and the mafias it has been working; secondly, what the BJP can provide and the adjustments the celebration would usher in greater training, regulation and order, trade and infrastructure growth and within the agriculture sector; and thirdly, the transparency in governance that might be introduced in by a BJP authorities.

“For the BJP what works in its advantage is people’s faith in Narendra Modi’s leadership,” Vijavargiya stated. “People in Bengal have already tested the Congress, CPI(M) and the TMC, but the state is going backward. So they are now desperate for a change. You wait and see, the BJP will do better than its performance in the Lok Sabha polls.. People should be allowed to come to the polling booths and vote. Then we will win two third of the seats.”