Calling upon Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee to play the position of the Chief Minister of your complete state and never simply of her celebration, the BJP on Tuesday sought stringent strikes to finish the violence in West Bengal after a bitterly fought, extremely polarised election marketing campaign.
Sources stated the central BJP management, frightened that the violence might probably pressure its cadre to change ranks to the TMC, is making an attempt to drag out all of the stops — from Prime Minister Narendra Modi dialling West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankar and expressing critical anguish to BJP president J P Nadda speeding to the state to fulfill households of staff killed and injured within the clashes. On Tuesday, the celebration additionally approached the Supreme Court in search of a CBI probe into the violence.
The BJP’s offensive towards the TMC had help from the CPI(M) and the Congress, which condemned the assaults and accused the ruling celebration of “unleashing violence”. Although neither celebration has any presence within the new West Bengal Assembly, their lending weight to the marketing campaign is critical given how Banerjee had talked of a united entrance towards the BJP.
Calling the scenario alarming and an try to “scare” celebration staff, BJP basic secretary and West Bengal in-charge Kailash Vijayvargiya advised The Indian Express, “What we are seeing in Bengal right now is unprecedented. I have never seen or heard of such violence on people. This is state-sponsored. Mamata Banerjee and the TMC should be graceful in their party’s victory.”
“This is just to scare those who voted for the BJP. TMC goons are asking BJP supporters how dare they supported us,” Vijayvargiya stated, echoing the celebration’s apprehension that the “fear” would handicap the celebration once more in a state the place it had struggled to construct up a cadre.
Vijayvargiya questioned Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s sincerity in calling herself the daughter of Bengal. “She called herself Bengal ki beti. Are these women, who have been assaulted on the roads by TMC goondas, not daughters of Bengal?”
The TMC, in the meantime, alleged that its staff, too, have been attacked, and that studies of violence are an exaggeration. Senior chief Derek O’ Brien requested on Twitter, “Why would someone who won a landslide victory start riots in their own state? They won’t. But the losing side might want you to think they would.”
A senior TMC chief stated, “There is a huge amount of propaganda that is doing the rounds in the state, including fake videos and photographs. There is violence, yes, but it is being controlled. But the BJP wants to turn this into a communal situation. This is the same model they used in Delhi after they got defeated. Look at the demands for President’s rule. Thousands are dying due to Covid. They have just found something to distract the country with.”
On Tuesday, each the Congress and the Left, too, alleged assaults on their cadres, accusing the Trinamool of practising “politics of violence” and blamed the BJP, too, for not with the ability to settle for its defeat.
“This has been the practice of the Trinamool…what we have been seeing for the last ten years….Pre-election violence, during election violence and post-electoral violence…In the last 10 years, we have lost 300-odd party members… False cases have been hoisted and people have been unable to go home for the last 10 years… this is the politics of terror and violence that has been the trademark of the TMC,” CPM basic secretary Sitaram Yechury stated.
Yechury’s CPI counterpart D Raja stated, “Political violence has been happening there for quite some time. Both the BJP and the TMC must be held responsible for the continuing violence,” stated Raja.
Asking each the TMC and the BJP to point out restraint, Yechury stated the BJP, unable to come back to phrases with the decision of the individuals, will attempt to impose President’s Rule within the state. “Already some of their people have filed a case in the court…a PIL….”
Jitin Prasada, AICC in-charge of the state, stated, “The post-poll violence that has been unleashed by the TMC on the Congress workers is unacceptable. Even women and children are not spared. I am sure the people of West Bengal did not vote for this lawlessness.”
Addressing a press convention, Congress spokesperson Shakti Singh Gohil stated violence in unacceptable in a democracy and identified that Mamata Banerjee, who has received the elections, now has an added duty to manage the scenario. —Inputs from Dipankar Ghose
