Former Bengal BJP chief Tathagata Roy, who has been lashing out at the leadership on Twitter for the party’s electoral drubbing in the state, has been summoned by the central brass in Delhi.

Sources in the BJP said the public display of Roy’s rage did not go down well with the central leadership.

“I have been asked by the topmost part leadership to come to Delhi ASAP. This is for general information,” Roy wrote on his Twitter handle on Thursday.

Speaking to The Telegraph, Roy said he was currently in home quarantine after having tested positive for the coronavirus.

He will go to Delhi after he has recovered, said Roy.

Since Tuesday, Roy has made a series of tweets blaming people namely, BJP’s national general secretary and Bengal minder Kailash Vijayvargiya, his deputy Arvind Menon, national joint general secretary (organisation) Shivprakash and the party’s Bengal Dilip Ghosh, for the poll debacle.

Though BJP leaders had claimed that they would form the government in Bengal with more than 200 of the 294 seats this time, they could only manage to win 77 seats. Roy, the former governor of Tripura and Meghalaya, like many other party members have held certain leaders, including people like the ones mentioned by him, for the loss.

“In the depths of my frustration I think of my icons Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee and Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyay. How they had suffered, and compared to that what is my suffering! And the thoughts of PP Doctorji and Guruji. Such thoughts, such suffering will not go in vain. Never!” Roy wrote on Twitter on Thursday.

He added: “Kailash-Dilip-Shiv-Arvind (KDSA) foursome have dragged the names of our respected Prime Minister and Home Minister through mud and have sullied the name of the biggest political party in the world. Sitting atop Agarwal Bhavan of Hastings (W Bengal BJP’s election headquarters) don’t I blame the central leadership? A central leadership in a country of 1.3 billion has to be briefed by the state leadership who are just clueless.”

Roy apprehends that Trinamul turncoats whom he describes as “the garbage who came from Trinamool” and old BJP workers will now quit the party.

“And that will be the end of the party in West Bengal,” he tweeted.