The crisis has been created by those who take money cut for everything, alleged Dilip Ghosh (Archive)
Calcutta:
In an attack on the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government in West Bengal, BJP state chairman Dilip Ghosh today alleged that the ruling party’s backers have created an “artificial potato crisis” in the state.
Expressing concern about the “sudden increase in the price of the kitchen staple, now available at Rs 40 per kg, if not more”, Mr Ghosh said this has hurt the common man.
“Why is the price of potatoes so high? The crisis has been artificially created by those sponsored by the ruling party. It has been created by those who take money cut for everything,” Ghosh told reporters.
The BJP leader also said that some of the TMC members are unhappy with the way the leadership has been working and claimed that the “rebel” cadres are raising slogans such as “PK Hatao, TMC Bachao“(Remove PK, Save TMC) to protest the ruling party’s decision to hire electoral strategist Prashant Kishores for the 2021 Assembly elections.
When asked if BJP will be able to bounce back from the upheaval it faced in the hills, with Gorkha Janmukti Morcha’s leader, Bimal Gurung, severing ties with the NDA and joining the TMC camp, Dilip Ghosh said the renegade has “betrayed “to the people of Darjeeling.
“Bimal Gurung has betrayed the people in the hills and the Binoy Tamang faction is not acceptable. The BJP, however, has always supported the people there. Our deputy enjoys great popularity there,” he said.
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