After Tathagata Roy lashing out at BJP over Bengal defeat, party veteran summoned to Delhi
The BJP pocketed just 77 seats in the just-concluded Bengal polls, with the TMC having bagged 213 constituencies.
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KOLKATA: BJP leader Tathagata Roy on Thursday said his party s top brass has called him to Delhi at the earliest, a day after he criticised some of the measures taken by the saffron camp s decision-makers ahead of the assembly elections.
The BJP pocketed just 77 seats in the just-concluded Bengal polls, with the TMC having bagged 213 constituencies.
The saffron party had set a target of winning over 200 seats.
Tathagata Roy said contesting the polls involves large expenses. (File)
Kolkata:
Veteran BJP leader Tathagata Roy, known for his controversial comments, triggered fresh row Tuesday for his tweet that some actor-turned-BJP candidates who never had anything to do with politics were fielded by the party only to concede electoral defeat in the West Bengal assembly poll.
He called three new political entrants from the tinsel world in BJP who were defeated by big margins as politically stupid .
Mr Roy tweeted that a BJP ticket to contest an election involves lots of expense to run the poll campaign. Film and TV actors who never had anything to do with politics, let alone BJP, were handed tickets by BJPs election management team. Parno Mitra (Baranagar), Srabanti Chatterjee (Behala West), Payel Sarkar (Behala East). These women were so politically stupid that they had gone on a steamer trip with TMCs playboy-politician Madan Mitra less than a month before elections and shot selfies