Assembly elections | Vijaywargiya ‘personally satisfied’ with BJP’s Bengal tally

He accuses TMC of wreaking violence on BJP workers in several parts of State

A day after the , BJP general secretary Kailash Vijaywargiya said he was “personally satisfied” with the party’s tally that had gone up from 3 to 76. He accused the TMC of wreaking violence on BJP workers in several parts of the State. “There is anarchy and our people are being attacked and five of them were killed. Some were even chased out of polling centres during the counting,” he told The Hindu. Mr. Vijaywargiya, party in charge of West Bengal, attributed many reasons for its loss in the State. He asserted that the most important one seemed to be “the surrender of the Congress and the Communist Party of India”, especially after the letter by Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar just before the polls announcing the support of many Opposition parties to the Trinamool Congress. “The heart went out of the Congress and the CPI(M) campaigns after that, with even Rahul Gandhi keeping away, albeit stating that it was due to the COVID-19 second wave. This led to a direct transfer of at least 9% vote from these parties to the TMC,” he said, a reference to a huge minority consolidation behind the TMC, which swept in the Congress and Left strongholds as well.