A section of state BJP leaders has demanded the removal of the party’s central minder for Bengal Kailash Vijayvargiya and his deputy Arvind Menon after Mukul Roy, who was perceived to be close to the duo, recently rejoined the Trinamul Congress ending his 44-month association with the saffron camp.
Vijayvargiya, one of the general secretaries of the BJP, was at the helm of affairs in the state unit and was seen as the primary architect of defections from Trinamul ahead of the Assembly polls.
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Several senior BJP leaders, including some old-timers, had expressed reservations about the strategy of engineering defections from other parties, but Vijayvargiya, along with Menon, bulldozed their way through and got several Trinamul legislators to sign up for the party.