The faction feud in the beleaguered Bengal BJP tumbled out on the streets of Calcutta on Friday as posters demanding the removal of the party’s minder for state Kailash Vijayvargiya were spotted in different parts of the city, especially in front of two party offices.

At least seven posters, accusing Vijayvargiya of being a ‘TMC setting master’ were put up near the Calcutta airport, BJP’s state headquarters on 6 Muralidhar Sen Lane and its other office at Hastings. The posters included an image of Vijayavargiya, two other images of him hugging Roy and the words ‘Go Back’ and ‘TMC Setting Master’.

Although the posters were taken down by BJP workers after a few hours, the damage had already been done as the pictures of the posters had circulated in social media.

State BJP chief Dilip Ghosh has claimed that the posters were the handiwork of the Trinamul Congress. “There is no internal feud within the BJP. None of us is behind the posters. This has been done by Trinamul which wants to malign us,” Ghosh told journalists on the sidelines of an organisational meeting at Behrampore in Murshidabad.

Although the Midnapore MP tried to pass the blame on Trinamul, many within his party disagreed with him. While the perpetrators behind these posters remained untraced, multiple BJP workers and leaders said the posters were an outburst of their discontent with Vijayvargiya.

During the polls, Vijayvargiya was responsible for the distribution of tickets to the candidates where he allegedly ignored party old timers and gave nomination to Trinamul turncoats at the behest of Mukul Roy, who recently returned to Trinamul.

Since Roy went back to his old political party, a large section of the party’s workers at the grassroots has alleged that the Krishnagar North MLA sabotaged BJP’s changes to wrest power in Bengal and Vijayvargiya was a part of his ploy.

“The posters validate our resentment with Kailashji. I’m sure it has been put up by some of our own people. This man has destroyed our dreams. He has not even stood beside the victims of post-poll violence. Any grudge against him is justified,” a state BJP office-bearer said.

Earlier on Tuesday, a vice-president of the party’s Asansol organisational district committee had written to union home minister Amit Shah requesting him to replace Vijayvargiya and his deputy Arvind Menon.

Sources said that the disgruntlement with Vijayvargiya has prompted the party’s leaders in Delhi to instruct him to stay away from Bengal for the time being.

The general discontent among the party’s old timers over the sudden importance the turncoats had received ahead of the polls was evident in the two organisational meetings held at the party’s Hastings office on Thursday and Friday.

On Thursday, a state general secretary, Sanjay Singh, who represents the Howrah district, said that the party had thought the induction of Trinamul turncoat Rajib Banerjee would help them score better in the district. However Banerjee failed to turn BJP's fortune there and also lost his own seat.

While he was hinting that the party had been wrong by placing its trust on the wrong person, the national leaders present at the meeting told Singh that he himself had lost the polls.

At Friday’s meeting central leaders urged the district presidents to speak to the old timers, who might have been upset over the induction of Trinamul turncoats and to urge them to get involved in the party’s daily activities.

“During the polls they turned a blind eye to people like us. Now when the turncoats are queuing up to get back the Trinamul our leaders are looking for us. Isn’t this hypocrisy?” an old timer said.

Both these meetings were presided over by BJP’s national joint general secretary (organisation) Shivprakash and Bengal co-minders Arvind Menon and Amit Malviya. However, Vijayvargiya was absent.

The state committee of the BJP will meet on June 29. Sources said that the party's national chief JP Nadda can attend the meeting virtually from Delhi. Since this is the first time that Nadda will speak to the entire state committee after the assembly polls there are chances that the disgruntled section within the party will come up with their complaints and allegations in front of him.