In what the Opposition Left parties promptly called an “admission” on the part of the BJP of its involvement in the Sunday’s attack on JNU campus, Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh on Monday justified the JNU incident saying such action was long overdue and that the Left had been paid back by their own coin.
When asked to comment on the Sunday’s incident that left about 30 students and teaching staff injured, Ghosh justified the action saying, “the communists deserved this. They are getting their due.”
He said “why campuses in Bengal, Kerala and Tripura are violent? This is because the Left had perpetrated this culture in these regions. Today they are getting paid back. They are getting what they deserved. There is nothing wrong in it.”
When asked to comment on whether the level of politics should stoop to such levels the State BJP chief said “they had perpetrated silent terror earlier, now they are getting it back. Good that the score is being settled,” adding however “the BJP does not believe in violence.”
Reacting strongly to Ghosh’s comments former CPI(M) MP Samik Lahiri said “when such comments come out of the mouth of none other than the chief of the State wing of a party then one has to believe that the attack was pre-planned.
He has made this honest confession. So why the BJP is refuting the charges on national media.”
The comments made by Ghosh was nothing but the culture they are groomed in, the senior CPI(M) leader said wondering the RSS was culturally any different from the ISIS. “They do it in Pakistan, here these people do it in India. There is no difference between them. Fascist fanaticism has no geographical barriers.”