Claiming that the poll violence orchestrated by the ruling Trinamool Congress would lead to its downfall five years later, BJP national President JP Nadda on Tuesday said that the party was taking inspiration from the fact that it had increased its tally from 3 MLAs in 2016 to 77 MLAs in 2021.

The BJP leader was speaking in a virtual meeting of the Bengal party unit where it was unanimously decided to accord highest importance to Opposition Leader Suvendu Adhikari by promoting to a level on par with State BJP president Dilip Ghosh.

Hence forward there would be two “topmost” leaders in the State politics: Dilip Ghosh and Suvendu Adhikari — who left Trinamool Congress just before the elections to join the saffron outfit.

Nadda’s attack on the TMC regime came in tandem with Union Minister of State for Home G Kishen Reddy saying the Home Ministry would take adequate measures after studying a report prepared by a civil society group claiming how 15,000 incidents of post-poll violence had taken place in Bengal and how about 7,000 women had been molested post May 2 when the election results came out.

The Minister quoted the report prepared by the civil society group headed by a former Chief Justice of a High Court and two retired IAS officers and said that there was “a clear indication that most of the incidents are not sporadic but premeditated, organised, and conspiratorial.”

Saying that 16 districts of Bengal had been afflicted by post-poll violence he said “The Home Ministry will study the report and will try to implement its recommendations.”