Ghosh also spoke about his absence from the official programmes of the state unit of the BJP.
Former West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh has stirred the political cauldron once again, this time by visiting the Jagannath temple in Digha and paying a courtesy call on chief minister Mamata Banerjee.
Bengal unit of the BJP have aggravated further as senior party leader and former state president Dilip Ghosh on Thursday, vehemently criticised his colleagues for attacking him after he attended the inauguration ceremony of the Lord Jagannath temple at Digha in East Midnapore district.
On a politically charged Wednesday, while Leader of Opposition in Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari held a counter-programme in Contai, former BJP state president Dilip Ghosh took a divergent path by honouring an invitation from the state government and visiting the newly-inaugurated Jagannath temple in Digha.
Senior BJP leader Dilip Ghosh on Monday issued a stern warning against those who betray India, likening them to terrorists in Kashmir.
Upon realising the error, Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh himself brought it down before rectifying the mistake and raising it properly.
“She seems to be inspired by Lalu Prasad Yadav (the RJD leader and formerly Bihar CM). For no apparent reason she says that she is ready to serve jail term. It expresses her disappointment this way. Now time has come for her to remain in jail”, the BJP leader Ghosh said.
Reportedly, the main talking point for BJP was to ensure heavy presence of central forces across the state during the upcoming West Bengal Assembly Election.
Mr Ghosh further said that farmers are being exploited in the state, and that they were unable to avail of the central government’s schemes and laws made for them through which the rest of the country has been benefiting.
Dilip Ghosh took a jibe at the reported incidents of a few TMC leaders getting the vaccine shot on Saturday, despite not being a frontline health worker.
