West Bengal is a police state: Mukul Roy

Mukul Roy left the Trinamool Congress (TMC) to join the BJP in November last year and, within six months, delivered an impressive performance for the party in the West Bengal panchayat polls. Yet his name doesn't quite figure in the higher echelons of the state BJP. When it comes to hierarchy, it is state BJP chief Dilip Ghosh and national secretary Rahul Sinha who call the shots. In an interview with Romita Datta, Roy opens up on his equation within the BJP and the party's strategy against the TMC. Excerpts:

A. I am a national executive member of the BJP and my position entails a lot of responsibilities. It will be wrong to compare the BJP with any other small party (TMC) and the post I held there. I am comfortable in the