Bengal BJP leader slams leadership for giving tickets to film, TV actors
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Tathagata Roy. (File Photo: IANS). Image Source: IANS News
New Delhi, May 4 : Former Governor of Meghalaya and Tripura and senior West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Tathagata Roy on Tuesday trained guns at party National General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya and state unit Chief Dilip Ghosh for giving tickets to film and TV actors who never had anything to do with politics.
In a series of tweets, Roy questioned Vijayvargiya and Ghosh what great qualities these women possessed for which they were given tickets. Film and TV actors who never had anything to do with politics, let alone BJP, were handed tickets by BJP s election management team Parno Mitra (Baranagar), Srabanti Chatterjee (Behala West), Payel Sarkar (Behala East), Roy tweeted.
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
BJP veteran targets party over Bengal poll debacle
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Former Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy questions choice of candidates
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Former Meghalaya Governor Tathagata Roy questions choice of candidates
Former Meghalaya Governor and one of senior most leaders of the BJP in West Bengal Tathagata Roy on Tuesday targeted the party leadership through a series of social media posts over the party’s poll debacle. He raised questions over the choice of actors as candidates and accused party leaders of not standing by supporters when they are under attack.
“Film and TV actors who never had anything to do with politics, let alone BJP, were handed tickets by BJP’s election management team. Srabanti Chatterjee (Behala West), Payel Sarkar (Behala East) Tanusree Chakraborty (Shyampur- Howrah) . These women were so politically stupid that they had gone on a steamer trip with TMC’s playboy-politician Madan Mitra less than a month before elections and shot sel