BJP Bengal’s Rahul Sinha speaks out against his party’s policy of favouring TMC rebels

Rahul Sinha, Bharatiya Janata Party leader from West Bengal, hit out against his own party on Saturday by releasing a video criticising the party’s strategy of dropping him in order to “make way for TMC leaders”.

This public expression of dissent is rare in the BJP, which till now has maintained strict discipline in its ranks with even slighted

Sinha is a veteran of the Bengal unit of the BJP, having served for decades from the time the saffron party was a non-entity in the state.

The immediate cause of his anger seems to be his replacement as the BJP’s national general secretary by a former Trinamool Congress MP, Anupam Hazra.

To add to this, Trinamool Congress defector Mukul Roy was promoted as a vice-president of the BJP.

Sinha is known to have stormy relations with Roy, a…