Sanitisation, Head Shave For BJP Recruits Rushing Back To Trinamool

Many Trinamool Congress workers who switched to the BJP before this year's state elections are trying to get back in their old party.

From having to shave their heads to being doused in sanitiser, it's a literal walk of shame for BJP workers in West Bengal who are trying to switch back to their old party Trinamool Congress following the state election results in May. Many will recall the horrors of China's Cultural Revolution in the mid-1960s: mass denunciations, self-criticism & other forms of public humiliation of people by Red Guards, and destruction of shrines. These scenes are now being re-enacted across W.Bengal against BJP workers. While the ride back was smoother for the likes of Mukul Roy, a top Trinamool lieutenant who switched to the BJP before the 2019 general elections, it's an entirely different experience for many of the party's foot soldiers. Those being accepted back in have been seen undergoing egregious tests of loyalty and prostrating to please the powers that be. Recently, six BJP workers shaved off their hair when they swapped party flags in Hooghly.