BJP says door shut, no more mass joinings from TMC

Kolkata:  The BJP has decided to stop mass joinings from the Trinamool Congress in West Bengal amid growing resentment within the saffron party over rampant inductions without scrutiny, senior leaders said on Tuesday.
“Selective” inductions would be made henceforth, that too after consultations with the local leadership, they said.
“We don’t want the BJP to turn into the B-team of the TMC by inducting leaders who don’t have a clean image. We don’t want people, facing allegations or are involved in immoral or illegal activities, to join our party,” BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya said.
“So henceforth, mass joinings would not take place. From now on, the joinings would be very selective and that too after scrutiny,” he added.
The decision has been taken amid rising infighting within the party’s West Bengal unit, often snowballing into the open, a senior state BJP leader said.
“In many cases, the district leadership is not happy with the mass inductions. It has led to infightings and the matter has not gone down well with the central leadership,” he said.