In a chilling reminder of secret murders of the left era when the Maoists, Marxists and Trinamool Congress goons engaged in silent games of mutual elimination, a BJP worker not even out of one’s teens was found murdered by alleged Trinamool goons in the boondocks of Balrampur, a block in Bengal-Jharkhand border in Purulia district.
The body of the young man called Trilochan Mahto was found hanging from a tree at Supurdih village with blood-curdling lines scrawled on the front and back of his whitish T-shirt that roughly read: “This is your reward for doing BJP politics. Trying to kill you since the elections but failed. Today got you. You are dead.”
Sources in the victim’s family said he had been accosted and strangulated to death by the TMC assailants following which senior party leader Rahul Sinha demanded CBI investigation into the case. “The people who are afraid of the rise of BJP have done this ghastly act,” he said.
The BJP not only displaced the left in Purulia but also shoved the Trinamool in number two position in the district in the rural elections.
A second incident took place at Jhargram another Jangalmahal district earlier dreaded for Maoist presence. According to sources armed TMC goons attacked the district party office where a large number of saffron workers had gathered for a meeting in the presence of State general secretary Subroto Chattopadhyaya.
According to sources a large number of armed TMC goons surrounded the party office and started firing at it. “Bombs were charged, bikes smashed and bullets were fired when our workers were holed up inside,” said a local BJP worker.
“Repeated phone calls to the police went unheard and none of them turned up till Wednesday noon almost 16 hours after the incident,” sources party sources complained.
“It all reminds us of the CPI(M) days when the Opposition workers were attacked like this. But the Trinamool will have to pay the same price like the CPI(M),” Sinha said.
However TMC leader Arya Ghosh said the attack was initially launched by the BJP. “After doing well in Jhargram they are now targeting our workers. They attacked our men with arrows and bombs,” said Ghosh.
