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Ex-Guv Tathagata Roy blames BJP brass for Bengal poll debacle

Internal tussles and blame-game politics among BJP’s West Bengal leaders continue to simmer, with former Tripura governor Tathagata Roy now blaming the local leadership for the assembly poll defeat and accusing it of not acting on post-poll violence.Roy, who led BJP in West Bengal from 2002 to 2006, has held state party president Dilip Ghosh and party’s central observers Kailash Vijayvargia, Shiv Prakash, and Arvind Menon responsible for the poll debacle and post-poll violence that he claimed was still going on.Roy accused these senior leaders of not helping people in time of their crisis…when they are being tortured by the Trinamool Congress miscreants in a tweet on Thursday.

“A very close person came crying today. Said a few thousand men who had worked for BJP have been driven out by Trinamool goons,” he tweeted. “They will possibly have to pay hefty sums of money to be allowed to return. I am helpless. Of the state leaders, KSA have run away. D doesn’t receive calls!”By ‘KSA’, he meant Kailash Vijayvargia, Shiv Prakash and Arvind Menon – the three central observers who were in-charge of assembly polls – and ‘D’ meant Dilip Ghosh, Roy told ET. This is not the first time the former Tripura and Meghalaya governor slammed the four. In many of his earlier tweets also he has referred to them as KSA and D.Expressing concern over post-poll violence in the state, Roy told ET: “West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee has been praised by the Calcutta High Court for curbing the violence. In reality, violence exists and the cut-money culture of the TMC continues in West Bengal. We will have to wait and watch whether the Calcutta High Court’s verdict that all the victims of poll violence who were forced to flee home should be sent back actually gets implemented or not.” The High Court had on May 31 constituted a three-member committee to enable the victims of post-poll violence whose houses were vandalised and lives put into danger.The court directed the committee to directly speak to the victims and help expedite their return home with the help of local police stations. Asked about Roy’s tweet, Ghosh said those who are never rooted to the ground take to social media to malign others.

Source: Economic Times