In what triggered a spontaneous criticism from political circles, Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh on Sunday prescribed the “shoeing medicine” for the Trinamool Congress saying that the “sin they are doing only deserved a wholesale shoeing of its people.”
The State ruling outfit reacted immediately blaming the BJP for bringing down the State’s political culture to an unprecedented level and daring Ghosh to go ahead with his plans and face the consequence.
Ghosh who was addressing a small crowd was the first to fire the salvo saying the TMC had unleashed a goonda-syndicate-police raj in the State where nothing was possible without cut money and no crime was impossible when it came to the ability of the Trinamool workers.
“The TMC is ruling Bengal by goons, guns and police … wherever you go you find people victimized by the TMC goons in some way or the other … time has come when they should be shooed up. Now the people will shoe them up for their misdeeds … otherwise they cannot be handled,” Ghosh said reminding the police administration of an inevitable political change next year.
“While we are keeping a note of the TMC goons who are perpetrating crime and torture on the people and the BJP workers we are also keeping a record of the police brass that is acting as an agent and stooge of the Trinamool,” he said adding “while the TMC men will be dealt with adequately after we come to power next year we warn the police officers to mind their actions because after we come to power we will not allow them to rest peacefully.”
He said in the past few years the BJP had “lost more than a hundred workers to the TMC’s goonda raaj.” Still the “BJP is fighting and making the sacrifice because the party wants to bring about a change in Bengal so that the State can be save from the TMC’s misrule.”
Warning the “partisan police officers” he said, “we will make this police men run so much that they will not be able to see the face of their family … today they are acting as the agents of the TMC leaders earning cut money and sending their children to study engineering in Bengaluru … but when we come to power we will make the situation such for them that their children will not be able to complete their courses … hence the police officers better mind their actions and act in a non-partisan manner.”
Reacting rather sharply to Ghosh’s “uncultured remarks” party MP and senior advocate Kalyan Banerjee said “what to talk about this uncultured man who is running the State unit of a party… he doesn’t have the sense of language. Still if he wants to shoe the TMC men up he has to start from me. I dare him to hit me first if he is really a man.”
Another leader and Minister Jyotipriya Mullick said “he is an illiterate person who has no sense of language. It is better not to talk about him… He is day-dreaming of winning in the next year’s Assembly elections. I can assure you he will not even get 30 seats. Let his party first get thirty seats and then we will see.”
Meanwhile, a booth-level BJP leader was on Sunday shot dead by alleged TMC goons at Kalna in East Burdwan district sources said adding a local TMC leader was arrested for the incident. Another BJP workers was shot at near Ichapore town in North 24 Parganas some 45 km north of Kolkata. He was admitted to a local hospital.