“Party leadership made a mistake by inducting TMC turncoats into the party”: BJP MLA Nikhil Ranjan Dey

News Desk: BJP MLA Nikhil Ranjan Dey on Monday said that the top leadership had made a mistake by inducting TMC turncoats into the party before the Assembly elections in West Bengal.

Dey said that the BJP would have fared better had the TMC leaders been not taken into the party fold.

“The BJP top leadership made a mistake by taking those TMC leaders into the party fold. They had never been integral with the BJP ideology” Dey told reporters in Cooch Behar town.

“These leaders had joined the BJP as they were swayed by the perception that the BJP will take over power in West Bengal. And they were given much importance by our party. Now they are leaving” he added.

TMC Coochbehar district president Partha Pratim Roy took a jibe at Dey and said, “By his logic, leader of the opposition in Assembly Suvendu Adhikari is also not integrated to the BJP ideology as he was with the TMC one year back. Is Dey raising fingers at Adhikari as well?”

Adhikari had joined the saffron party in December last year.