Jalpaiguri: BJP Rajya Sabha MP Ananta Roy (Maharaj) has landed the party in trouble amid SIR after he said that detention camps were being ordered by Union home minister Amit Shah and questioned why people living in Bengal should "prove their origin". Roy also said that central social welfare schemes would be frozen for disenfranchised voters. BJP on Sunday distanced itself from Roy's comment.
Addressing a meeting at Adabari in Cooch Behar's Dinhata on Saturday, Roy said, "The Union home minister has ordered detention camps. People whose names will be deleted will be kept there. Then they will ask you to prove your origin. We have been living here. Why should we prove?" Parts of his speech went viral on social media.
Reacting to this, Bengal BJP chief Samik Bhattacharya said: "I don't know in what context he said it. I don't know what prompted him to think like that. Our central netas will take a decision on his comment."
"Since Roy is a BJP MP, it is the PM's responsibility to see how he would handle this," said Cooch Behar Trinamool chairperson Girindranath Barman.