A BJP delegation comprising party leaders Kailash Vijaywargiya, Sidharthnath Singh and Rahul Sinha met Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Thursday and submitted a memorandum over the alleged Trinamool-orchestrated violence against its BJP workers and offices in West Bengal.
After the meeting, speaking to media, Vijaywargiya warned West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee against the continuance of such “hooliganism” in State and said she would taste the same medicine in other parts of the country, where BJP is strong.
“We may not be as strong as TMC in Bengal. But in the entire country we are the strongest political force. I wonder if BJP workers in Delhi decide that TMC MPs would not be allowed to enter Delhi, would they be able to enter the national CapitalIJ The answer is no. If BJP workers decide to protest across the country, would Mamata Banerjee be able to roam the country freelyIJ If TMC doesn’t mend its ways, we will also not sit silently,” Vijyavargiya, who is also BJP observer in-charge of West Bengal, told reporters in Kolkata.
“Our party offices have been ransacked throughout the State. Bombs have been hurled at homes of various party leaders. The police is just a mute spectator,” BJP national secretary Rahul Sinha said.
Minister of State Babul Supriyo also met the Home Minister separately to apprise him of the situation in his home state and the attack by “TMC goons” on his home in Kolkata. In Kolkata, another BJP delegation met Governor KN Tripathi urging imposition of President’s Rule in the state in the wake of deteriorating law and order. The TMC has alleged Supriyo is also involved in the scam but the Government is shielding him. Supriyo challenged Mamata to make public any evidence against him.
The delegations charged that the state machinery under the rule of Trinamool Congress is orchestrating attacks on BJP offices and leaders after the CBI arrested two TMC MPs in the Rose Valley Chit Fund scam.
Hours after alleged TMC workers vandalised the state BJP headquarters in downtown Kolkata last evening, they attacked the house of state party general secretary Krishna Bhattacharya in Hooghly district. In another incident at Chinsurah in Hooghly district, alleged TMC workers set on fire a BJP office.