BJP Warns Its Bengal Ex Chief, Says “You Embarrassed Leadership”

Kolkata:

Former West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh has acquired a letter from the occasion headquarters in Delhi, drawing consideration to feedback by him that has “induced embarrassment” to the central management.

In April, Mr Ghosh, who’s now the Nationwide Vice President of BJP, had publicly criticised his successor Sukanta Majumdar’s dealing with of occasion affairs within the state, the place the occasion had misplaced the election final yr to Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress.

“Sukanta Majumdar is much less skilled. The occasion has been preventing for lengthy and there are skilled veterans…They need to be put as much as battle within the state,” Mr Ghosh had advised reporters.

Within the letter despatched to Mr Ghosh yesterday and signed by BJP headquarters in-charge Arun Singh, the occasion reminded the Bengal chief that he had been advised to protect towards making controversial feedback previously too, “within the fond hope that you’ll take notice.”

Mr Ghosh, the letter exhibits, has not taken notice of the occasion’s earlier recommendation but.

“In [a] current interview, your feedback within the digital media and maybe on different boards have been brazenly vital of senior state functionaries. Such feedback will solely damage and hurt the occasion and negate your personal exhausting work previously,” the BJP mentioned within the letter to Mr Ghosh.

“Whereas your dedication to the occasion has been absolute, there have been some avoidable situations when a few of your statements or outbursts have anguished the state occasion leaders and have additionally induced embarrassment to the central management,” the letter mentioned.

“The nationwide management of the BJP is deeply involved on the issuance of such statements by way of the media…On the directions of Nationwide [party] President Shri JP Nadda ji, I want to convey to you the occasion’s deep anguish…I sincerely hope you’d recognize the sensitivity of the state of affairs, notably in West Bengal, and shall all the time stay extra discreet in your dealings with the…media or any public fora,” the BJP headquarter in-charge mentioned within the letter.

The BJP had focused to win a minimum of 200 seats within the Bengal meeting elections in early 2021. Nonetheless, the occasion didn’t do effectively, and a number of other leaders who had crossed over to the BJP from Mamata Banerjee’s occasion earlier than the elections ultimately returned to the Trinamool Congress.