A day after the arrest of West Bengal BJP leader Rakesh Singh in a drug case, the party’s national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Wednesday accused the Mamata Banerjee government of playing “dirty vendetta politics”. Vijayvargiya, the BJP in-charge of West Bengal, said there have been “weird charges” against him also. Singh, a BJP state committee member and the convener of the party’s Basti cell, was arrested in connection with the arrest of Pamela Goswami, BJP Yuva Morcha state secretary, for possession of 76 gm of heroin. “Now BJP leader Arjun Singh, who was ‘pure’ when he was with the TMC, has 104 cases against him, and there are over 60 cases against (former TMC leader and current BJP vice president) Mukul Roy,” he pointed out. The BJP leader also insisted that recent moves by the CBI and ED against TMC leaders were long pending.

Source: Indian Express February 25, 2021 00:41 UTC