News Desk, AnyTV, New Delhi
Published by: Surendra Joshi
Updated Thu, 03 Mar 2022 02:45 PM IST
Summary
Roy said, ‘Now there is a need to be straight. I am 77 years old and as per BJP norms, am out of active politics. I have conveyed my views to the authorities. My work is done.’
Senior BJP leader and former Governor of Tripura and Meghalaya Tathagata Roy has targeted his own party after the results of Bengal civic elections. Roy tweeted that after yesterday’s results, ‘I am getting calls, why are you not doing anything else instead of just sitting there tweeting?’
Roy said, ‘Now there is a need to be straight. I am 77 years old and as per BJP norms, am out of active politics. I have conveyed my views to the authorities. My work is done.’ After 10 months of securing a landslide victory in the West Bengal Assembly elections, the ruling Trinamool Congress on Wednesday wiped out the entire opposition in the state’s municipal bodies as well.
Roy said out of 107 municipalities in the state, TMC has won 102. The Trinamool Congress has won in Kanthi municipality, considered the “stronghold” of Leader of Opposition in the Assembly and Nandigram MLA Suvendu Adhikari, while Hamro Party, a newcomer to the hill politics of North Bengal, defeated the Trinamool Congress, Gorkha Janmukti Morcha and the BJP. After capturing Darjeeling municipality.
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Senior BJP leader and former Governor of Tripura and Meghalaya Tathagata Roy has targeted his own party after the results of Bengal civic elections. Roy tweeted that after yesterday’s results, ‘I am getting calls, why are you not doing anything else instead of just sitting there tweeting?’
Roy said, ‘Now there is a need to be straight. I am 77 years old and as per BJP norms, am out of active politics. I have conveyed my views to the authorities. My work is done.’ After 10 months of securing a landslide victory in the West Bengal Assembly elections, the ruling Trinamool Congress on Wednesday wiped out the entire opposition in the state’s municipal bodies as well.
Roy said out of 107 municipalities in the state, TMC has won 102. The Trinamool Congress has won in Kanthi municipality, considered the “stronghold” of Leader of Opposition in the Assembly and Nandigram MLA Suvendu Adhikari, while Hamro Party, a newcomer to the hill politics of North Bengal, defeated the Trinamool Congress, Gorkha Janmukti Morcha and the BJP. After capturing Darjeeling municipality.