The BJP’s national general secretary Anupam Hazra on Saturday said around 100 party workers had written to him accusing local saffron party leaders of leaving them in the lurch since the Assembly poll drubbing.

Hazra, who said hundreds of party workers across Birbhum had met him or informed in writing that many of these party leaders don’t even take their calls nowadays, promised to raise the issue at a forthcoming working committee meeting where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is scheduled to attend.

“I have received at least a hundred letters from BJP workers from several Assembly segments in Birbhum. The letters say how local leaders are not responding to calls and have not stood with them on the ground to address their problems. I will inform Narendra Modi who is scheduled to attend the party’s working committee meeting on November 7,” said Hazra after meeting around a dozen such aggrieved party workers at his Santiniketan residence.

A BJP worker who met Hazra on Saturday said before Assembly polls they were assured of all support and leaders had spoken about the BJP's clout in Delhi.

“It was shocking when the party leaders left us alone when we faced attacks by the ruling party immediately after the poll debacle. Many of us have been booked under false cases but BJP leaders are not helping us in legal issues. They don’t even take our calls,” said the BJP worker who refused to be identified.

Asked to comment on the issue, Trinamul’s Birbhum district chief Anubrata Mondal was brief in his reply.

“It has been established in this Assembly election that the BJP neither had any leader or worker. I will not say anything more in this connection,” he said.