Amid reports of disputes over the recent elevation of former TMC leaders in the BJP hierarchy, Bengal leaders have been called to Delhi to attend a key meeting to be led by Interior Minister Amit Shah.
The former BJP president, who had set himself the goal of overthrowing the Trinamool government in 2021 after his party won 18 of the 42 seats in the state’s Lok Sabha in 2019, will outline the strategies to be followed by the West Bengal unity in the run-up. to the next assembly elections.
Bengal’s leaders called to Delhi are State President Dilip Ghosh, National Vice President Mukul Roy and, quite significantly, Rahul Sinha, who voiced his complaint in public after being removed from the post of National Secretary during Saturday’s shakeup.
Being replaced by Anupam Hazra, a much younger leader who left the TMC and joined the BJP in January 2019, Sinha lamented the fact that after a 40-year service in the party he was removed to make way for the leaders. of the TMC.
In the same reorganization, Roy, who had been a national executive member of the BJP since 2017, when he left the TMC, was appointed national vice president.
“The meeting has been called to discuss a general strategy to be followed in Bengal. The differences that have arisen from the elevation of former TMC leaders in the BJP hierarchy will also be resolved, ”said a state BJP leader who was aware of the events, on condition of anonymity.
“No specific constituency policy will be discussed at this meeting. Only the central issues will be discussed on Thursday, ”he told HT.
There is speculation in the state unit of the BJP that Roy may be tasked with overseeing the electoral machinery of the Bengal unit as the BJP performed well in the 2018 panchayat and 2019 Lok Sabha elections when he was the coordinator of the state electoral committee. He was able to bring many TMC leaders to the BJP.
Sinha’s trip to Delhi was marked by the agitation of his followers at Calcutta airport on Wednesday afternoon. More than a hundred men and women blocked his way in front of the airport entrance, asking him not to take the flight. “We don’t want the BJP to become a TMC B-team,” the BJP workers shouted.
“I am going to Delhi because I have been invited. Let me attend the meeting and come back. I will talk to you, ”Sinha told her followers.
Besides Shah, the central leaders of the BJP who will attend the meeting are Arvind Menon, Shivprakash, Kailash Vijayvargiya and the party chairman, JP Nadda.
Menon, Shivprakash and Vijayvargiya are tasked with overseeing the Bengal organization on behalf of the central leadership.
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