The BJP offices were bombarded with phone calls from a large number of Trinamool Congress legislators and councilors seeking entry into the saffron outfit but only those who were honest would be accommodated by the party, senior leader and BJP observer for Bengal Kailash Vijayvargiya on Sunday said.
“There a large number of MLAs and corporators who are seeking entry in our party, but we have a clear policy regarding new entries… and that is no person who is accused of taking cut money will be entertained,” Vijayvargiya said adding “our State president Dilip Ghosh has for the time being cut off the entry passage of those tainted leaders guilty of taking cut money.”
Post general elections anti-cut money movement have been raging throughout Bengal with common people allegedly egged on by the saffron outfit challenging the TMC leaders asking them to return the cut money they had taken from their for providing various government schemes.
The movement caught win after Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in a meeting of party councilors asked the lesser leaders to return the cash they had accepted from the people in lieu of government schemes.
Reacting to the Chief Minister’s statement the BJP leader wondered “why she would not act for the past eight years that she ruled the State despite repeated complaints,” adding “only after the colossal defeat at the hands of the BJP in the general elections that she is asking her party men to return the money they had taken.”
This tactic amounted to “leaving the supporters at their times of distress,” he said adding “Mamata Banerjee is acting like the captain of a sinking ship where the captain is fleeing the ship leaving fellow passengers to sink.”
Taking a dig at the Chief Minister for failing to account for the lions’ share of the cut money he said “those being asked by the common people to return the cut money are telling that the major share has gone upwards … so what will happen to that share … The Chief Minister and her senior leaders owe an explanation to this question.”
Meanwhile, the State BJP president literally broke down on Sunday alleging how scores of his party men were eliminated by the Trinamool Congress goons.
Referring to the alleged murder of Krishna Debnath a BJP supporter for chanting Jai Shri Ram, he said “no sacrifice will go in vain and the BJP will emerge triumphant in the battle for truth.”
Even as the TMC termed Debnath’s murder charge as “baseless” Ghosh demanded Banerjee’s resignation for “failing to discharge her obligations as the Chief Minister.”
“With the death of Krishna Debnath, we have lost 19 of our activists since the Lok Sabha results. It is shameful that our party workers are being killed for chanting Jai Shri Ram slogan,” another BJP leader Mukul Roy said.
While the saffron party alleged that Debnath was beaten to death for chanting Jai Shri Ram, the TMC said the locals attacked him because he was misbehaving with women.
