After having faced a defeat in Bengal the BJP central leadership is thinking of replacing the party’s observer for the State, Kailash Vijayvargiya with a new face.
Vijayvargiya might be replaced with either Bhupendra Yadav — a leader with proven organizational capabilities and with good personal relationship with Prime Minister Narendra Modi — or Union Minister Smriti Irani, a woman with Bengal connections.
Another reason for Vijayvargiya’s removal could be his close relationship with ex-BJP national vice president Mukul Roy, who, reversely defected to the Trinamool Congress last week after joining the BJP, leaving the Trinamool Congress in 2017.
In fact, Vijabargiya had been under constant attack from the Bengal party leadership including senior leader and former Tripura Governor Tathagato Roy.
Refusing to share the responsibility of BJP’s defeat in the Assembly elections the State party leadership has blamed the national leaders under whose guidance and plans the polls were fought. Many of the State leaders have privately asked as to why the party failed to read the “Bengali pulse which is more intellectually and logically than communally driven.”