TMC goons assault social gathering leaders who not too long ago defected to the BJP

On Saturday, a conflict broke out between BJP and TMC staff after the latter launched an unprovocative assault in opposition to the brand new entrants to the saffron social gathering exterior the BJP’s most important election workplace in Hastings in Kolkata, West Bengal.
As per studies, the scenario grew to become tense when Sunil Mondol arrived on the BJP workplace. Prior to his arrival, the TMC staff had arrange a stage close to the saffron social gathering’s workplace and started their protest. Although the police personnel tried to disperse the TMC mob, they have been extremely outnumbered. They ambushed the car of the BJP chief, stopping him from getting into the workplace.
Police is simply B Team of Mamata.Today whereas Suvendu Adhikari and others MP’s/MLA who left TMC Party coming into into BJP Party Office, TMC G0ons blocked their Car’s, Pelted stones on their autos. pic.twitter.com/40b5TjfTvb— Akshay Singh (@iakshaysinghel) December 26, 2020
A scuffle thus broke out between the 2 sides however the police failed to manage the scenario. Soon, further police forces have been deployed and the scenario was pacified. It was solely after that Sunil Mondol was in a position to step foot into the social gathering workplace. Several BJP stalwarts reminiscent of MP Arjun Singh, Locket Chatterjee, Kailash Vijayavargiya and Dilip Ghosh ultimately held assembly at their most important election workplace in Hastings. They condemned the ‘planned conspiracy’ and alleged police complicity within the incident.
Political reactions on the incident
BJP MP Arjun Singh stated, “Some TMC activists, who were participating in a programme there, blocked his car. They sat on the road to stop him from going to our office. They also banged the window panes, pelted his vehicle with stones.” Reacting strongly to the ambush of his automobile by TMC goons, Sunil Mondol stated, “This only shows the true colour of the TMC. They don’t believe any democratic norm. Is this a way to treat a people’s representative.”
In his defence, TMC chief Saugata Roy claimed, “It was a spontaneous protest of the people of the area. Sunil has won the ticket twice from the TMC. He has betrayed our party. So the TMC supporters stopped his car and staged a spontaneous protest. Nothing was planned.”
BJP lodges criticism in opposition to the TMC
In a criticism to the Hastings police station, the BJP Vice- President (West Bengal) Pratap Banerjee acknowledged, “This morning we were shocked to find that the ruling TMC party has set-up a stage right in front of our Hastings Party office. Today there are a few party meetings along with facilitation of many members. It is very clear that this provocative act of the TMC is with the sole purpose of disturbing the peace of the area and creating a law and order situation.”
Complaint by the BJP to the Hastings police stationThe social gathering emphasised, “We are very certain that this provocative act has been accomplished with getting any prior approval of your police station as such permission in regular course might have been given. We name upon you to right away take steps to have this stage eliminated, be sure that TMC don’t maintain any gathering of individuals and in addition deployment of acceptable deployment of drive to take care of legislation and order.’
TMC leaders desert social gathering to affix the BJP
The ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal is in a state of political turmoil, with a number of heavyweight lawmakers deserting the social gathering. A lengthy listing of TMC leaders, together with 4 others from the Left and Congress, joined the BJP, within the presence of BJP chief Amit Shah in Midnapore on December 19. Several MLAs and social gathering leaders from TMC, Congress and left events joined BJP together with Adhikari. The main leaders who joined BJP in West Bengal are:
Burdwan Purba MP Sunil Mandal, TMCFormer minister and Tamluk MLA Suvendu Adhikari, TMCKanthi Uttar MLA Banasri Maity, TMCKalna MLA Biswajeet Kundu, TMCEast Bardhaman MLA Saikat Panja, TMCBarrackpore MLA Shilbhadra Datta, TMCGhazole MLA Dipali Biswas, TMCNagrakata MLA Shukra Munda, TMCTamluk MLA Ashok Dinda, CPIHaldia MLA Tapashi Mandal, CPIMPurulia MLA Sudeep Mukherjee, CongressFormer MP Dasharath Tirkey, TMCEx minister Shyamapada Mukherjee, TMCFormer MLA Satyen Roy, TMCApart from these, a number of panchayat-level lawmakers and ardent followers of TMC MLA Suvendu Adhikary are additionally becoming a member of BJP. They embrace Kaberi Chattopadhyay, Snehashish Bhowmik, Akashdeep Singh, Tanmoy Roy, Ranjan Vaidya, Dev Mohapatra and Sukumar Das. The saffron social gathering may even be joined by Congress leaders reminiscent of Sudip Kumar Mukherjee and Sanmay Banerjee. Former vice-chancellor of Gour Banga college Gopal Mishra additionally joined BJP right this moment. Numerous politicians from TMC and different events additionally joined the social gathering.