Former Union minister Babul Supriyo said he opposed the “indiscriminate” induction of individuals into the BJP before the assembly elections in West Bengal and it’s going to have affected the party’s performance within the polls.
Supriyo, who joined the Trinamool Congress last week, told PTI in an interview that his view on the matter might not are liked by the BJP’s administration .
“Many outsiders with no previous links to the BJP overnight became our party leaders and this may need contributed to our assembly poll performance. I had opposed such indiscriminate taking of individuals on faith their antecedents but my words weren’t heeded to,” he said.
“I thought my words against such affairs in BJP before the polls might not are liked by the highest leadership,” he added.
Supriyo said BJP state president Dilip Ghosh was also partly liable for the assembly poll debacle of the party.
“His comments during the poll campaign weren’t in sync with the culture of Vidyasagar, Rabindranath Tagore and Satyajit Ray, and incongruous with the ethos of Bengalis. It had contributed to the decline of the party in Bengali psyche,” he said.
Supriyo, who announced in July that he was quitting politics after being dropped as a minister, said he was disillusioned and wanted to offer longer to arts and music.
“But, I definitely nursed a desire to return to active politics and that i got that chance from the TMC. I wanted to be within the 11-member squad of a team — if not in my favourite Mohun Bagan, then in East Bengal or another good club. I thank TMC for giving me that chance ,” he said.
Supriyo, a noted singer, said he was conscious of the trolling on social media after he joined the TMC. “People have the proper to mention what they deem fit, but weren’t an equivalent terms — “gaddar” and “Mirzafar” — used against those that had left TMC to hitch the BJP some months back?”
He said it might be the prerogative of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and senior party leader Abhishek Banerjee to offer him whatever responsibility they appear appropriate.
Supriyo recalled how he and Abhishek sent legal notices to every other before the assembly elections. He said he would now fork over the notices he received to Abhishek, and he hoped that the senior TMC leader would also do an equivalent .