'No information Mukul Roy's brother-in-law had ties with BJP'

The BJP today said there is no information that its leader Mukul Roy's brother-in-law, arrested on May 4 for allegedly duping railway job seekers, was associated with the saffron party.

BJP National Secretary Rahul Sinha, addressing a press conference here, said that the party is also not ruling out political vendetta behind the arrest.

"I have no information that Mukul Roy's brother-in-law is associated with BJP. And we need to check if the politics of revenge and vendetta are involved in it.

"While BJP will not take responsibility if the charges are proved, we are also of the view that this state government is pursuing the policy of revenge," he said.

Roy's brother-in-law, Srijan Roy, was held from New Delhi airport on the basis of complaints, which were filed around six years ago.

Describing the arrest as "political conspiracy", Mukul Roy, who was the Union railway minister in 2012 when the cases were lodged against his brother-in-law, has said that he himself was the actual target of the move.

"This is a conspiracy hatched by Trinamool Congress supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee against me and my family members. She is resorting to such things because she is afraid of the Bharatiya Janata Party. I am the real target of this conspiracy," he had said.