Have been asked to meet BJP top leadership in Delhi Tathagata Roy after row over tweets

    Kolkata, May 6 (PTI) BJP leader Tathagata Roy on
Thursday said his party's top brass has called him to Delhi at
the earliest, a day after he criticised some of the measures
taken by the saffron camp's decision-makers ahead of the
assembly elections.
    The BJP pocketed just 77 seats in the just-concluded
Bengal polls, with the TMC having bagged 213 constituencies.
The saffron party had set a target of winning over 200 seats.
    Taking to Twitter, the former governor of two
northeastern states -- Tripura and Meghalaya -- said, "I have
been asked by the party's topmost leadership to come to Delhi
ASAP. This is for general information."
    Roy, during his interaction with reporters on
Wednesday, had claimed that "unwanted elements" from the TMC
was inducted into the BJP ahead of the assembly polls, and
leaders having no idea or understanding of Bengali culture and
heritage were made to helm the election campaign in the state.
    On the migroblogging site, he also wrote, "In the
depths of my frustration I think of my icons Dr Syama Prasad
Mookerjee and Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay. How they had
suffered and compared to that what is my suffering!.....Such
thoughts, such suffering will not go in vain. Never!"
    In a no-holds-barred diatribe aimed at state BJP
minders and the Bengal unit chief, he further tweeted,
"Kailash-Dilip-Shiv-Arvind (KDSA) foursome have dragged the
names of our respected Prime Minister and Home Minister
through mud and have sullied the name of the biggest political
party in the world. Sitting atop Agarwal Bhavan of Hastings (W
Bengal BJP's election headquarters)."
    On Tuesday, Roy, known for his controversial remarks
and tweets, had said that three new female entrants in the BJP
from the tinsel town, who got defeated by big margins, are
"politically stupid", raising several eyebrows.
    "What great qualities were these women possessed of?
Kailash Vijayvargiya, Dilip Ghosh & Co must answer (sic)," he
had tweeted.
    Reacting strongly to Roy's jibe at his industry
colleagues, Kanchan Mallick, an actor who fought on a TMC
ticket and won the Uttarpara seat, "It is insulting for them
even though they belong to my rival party," he said. PTI SUS
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