Infighting Flares Up in Bengal BJP Soon After Party Announces Candidates List
Several new entrants in the party have been given tickets, angering old-timers.
Representative image of BJP members at work ahead of a campaign rally in West Bengal. Photo: PTI.
Politics16/Mar/2021
Kolkata: Discontent among Bharatiya Janata Party supporters has been brewing, as the party inducts leaders from the Trinamool Congress, Communist Party of India (Marxist) and Congress almost daily in Bengal. On March 15, hundreds of BJP supporters held all-day protests outside the partyâs election office in Hastings, south Kolkata, for fielding turncoats as BJP candidates.
Their anger was clearly visible when senior BJP leaders like national vice-president Mukul Roy, MP from Barrackpore Arjun Singh and national general secretary Shiv Prakash were heckled by the protestors while they were entering the party office.