RSS wants greater say over Bengal BJP's organisational structure

As BJP is all set to overhaul its organisational pattern in West Bengal in the coming days, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is putting pressure for greater RSS control over the newly organisational setup of the party in the state. RSS wants its confidants to have more say in the new setup.

Kolkata: As BJP is all set to overhaul its organisational pattern in West Bengal, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is putting pressure for greater RSS control over the newly organisational set up of the party in the state. RSS wants its confidants to have more say in the new set up. At the same time, RSS has given a clear message to BJP's central leadership that more focus should be laid on those who have been party loyalists than the turncoats.

A clear message in this regard has come to BJP's national general secretary (organisation) BL Santosh from the RSS headquarter in Nagpur from RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat. RSS sources said that barring a couple of leaders like Suvendu Adhikari, the Sangh top brass is not in favour of placing leaders coming from Trinamool Congress to BJP in crucial organisational positions at this moment.

Sources said that following the results of the recently concluded West Bengal elections, RSS top brass had an initial discussion to evaluate the reasons behind the election results. Following that, they made certain observations, the prime of which was that RSS had little control over the party's elections proceedings and hence several leaders coming from Trinamool Congress were given important positions in the party.

Another observation was that nominating 148 such leaders as candidates in the assembly elections had backfired the party. However, RSS's state leadership was more or less silent on such issues. The RSS top brass has also sought explanations from Pradip Joshi, the organisation's incharge of West Bengal and asked him to immediately forward a detailed report to Nagpur.

RSS leadership is of the opinion that since the state and central leadership of BJP gave preference to the turncoats than the original loyalists, a number of secret plans of BJP were leaked to Trinamool Congress and this helped Trinamool to rectify their own planning mistakes easily and concentrate on their weaker areas.

Former editor of Swastik, Rantideb Sengupta said that proper planning by Trinamool forced BJP to accept such a defeat. "Before the elections, Trinamool deliberately planted many of their supporters in BJP, who played the sabotage game from inside. These leaders and workers also kept Trinamool updated on BJP's internal planning," Sengupta added.