Kolkata, May 6 (IANS) West Bengal BJP President, Samik Bhattacharya, on Wednesday alleged that Trinamool Congress activists were attacking the offices of the party’s own leaders after the BJP’s landslide victory in the state Assembly polls.
He was reacting to reports of post-poll violence in the state which claimed that several offices of Trinamool Congress have allegedly been attacked.
Speaking to IANS, Bhattacharya alleged that now there is a “discord” within the Trinamool Congress, because of which they are attacking each other.
Giving an example, he claimed, “(BJP candidate) Dilip Ghosh and the Trinamool candidate who was contesting against him, both of them exchanged greetings and went home after Ghosh’s victory. At night the same Trinamool candidate called up Dilip Ghosh for help claiming that his office was being attacked.”
The Bengal BJP chief alleged that the Trinamool candidate had claimed during the call that activists of the latter’s party were coming to vandalise his office.
“Trinamool members are attacking each other,” Bhattacharya claimed.
He said that the BJP has declared that DJs won’t play during the party’s celebrations because it is not West Bengal’s culture.
“Nobody will attack any office. We will stop the (post-poll) violence at any cost,” he asserted.
About US President Donald Trump congratulating Prime Minister Narendra Modi on BJP’s Bengal win, Bhattacharya said: “Whether Trump congratulated him or not, does not change the democratic process in West Bengal.”
However, he added: “Whether it’s California, Los Angeles, Silicon Valley or Dallas, people who have their names in the state’s voter list, came to cast their votes.”
“Few youths, who work in Silicon Valley, came to meet me since their batchmate was a BJP candidate from Behala,” the BJP leader claimed.
He mentioned that the entire country’s focus was on West Bengal because the demography of the state has undergone a “massive change”.
Bhattacharya alleged that the state’s land was used to spread a “module” in the entire country. “Even ISIS terrorists were arrested from Kolkata,” he added.
According to the Bengal BJP chief, due to this silent demographic invasion, the internal security of the country was being “compromised”.
“So, this victory is very essential from the point of view of national security,” he asserted.
“I pay my regard to the people’s mandate who have re-established democracy in West Bengal,” he said.
Further, he said: “Our politics is decisive, Trinamool’s politics is divisive. The people of West Bengal will understand the difference between these two in the next six months.”
–IANS
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