File photo: BJP Rajya Sabha member Ananta Roy (Maharaj)
JALPAIGURI: BJP Rajya Sabha member Ananta Roy (Maharaj) has left his party squirming with his remarks on Saturday that detention camps were ordered by Union home minister Amit Shah.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.Roy also said that central social welfare schemes would be frozen for disenfranchised voters.BJP on Sunday distanced itself from Roy’s comment.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.
