Former Union minister Babul Supriyo said he opposed the “indiscriminate” induction of people into the BJP ahead of the assembly elections in West Bengal and it may have affected the party’s performance in the polls.
Supriyo, who joined the Trinamool Congress last week, told in an interview that his view on the matter may not have been liked by the BJP’s top brass.
“Many outsiders with no previous links to the BJP overnight became our party leaders and this might have contributed to our assembly poll performance. I had opposed such indiscriminate taking of people without checking their antecedents but my words were not heeded to,” he said.