New Delhi: With the spate of TMC leaders' resignation and reports of them switching over to Bharatiya Janata Party in West Bengal has created resentment in the saffron camp.
Meanwhile, BJP leaders are questioning about rebel TMC leaders' joining and said that people will never want those, who thrashed BJP workers earlier.
In a video message, Asansol Lok Sabha MP from West Bengal Babul Supriyo on Friday said that people who tortured his BJP colleagues should not get an entry in BJP.
This reaction came from the singer turned politician a day after TMC rebel Jitendra Tiwari resigned from the Asansol civic body and as the Paschim Bardhaman district president.
Supriyo said that Asansol residents will never want Jitendra, who thrashed BJP workers to join BJP.
"Under Mamata Banerjee's directions, TMC leaders have committed numerous crimes on people of Asansol-Durgapur and Jitendra Tiwari is one of them. Many have lost their lives. I won't betray BJP workers by making a deal with them, nor can I ever accept these people joining BJP," he said.
"I do not have the mentality to do such covert deals like betraying the trust of my BJP colleagues with whom we fought the battle to defeat and eradicate TMC from Bengal," he said.
"I will try my best to ensure that no TMC leader who tormented, tortured my grass-root level BJP colleagues get an entry in BJP. The recent crackdown on the coal and sand mafia of the region prove that BJP aims to serve justice to the people of Bengal and also give the State's youth a clean and peaceful life once it forms government post the upcoming 2021 West Bengal Assembly elections," Supriyo added.
Reportedly Tiwari on Friday rejected rumours of joining the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Slamming the ruling party for removing his security, Tiwari said that the government took the step as it did not realise his worth.
Meanwhile, TMC party workers on the same day tore Tiwari's posters and raised slogans against him in the city, accusing him of betraying party chief and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.
Notably, five top leaders including Suvendu Adhikari, Jitendra Tiwari, Abhijit Acharya, Diptangshu Choudhury and Silbhadra Datta tendered their resignation to the West Bengal's TMC party.
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