No one can stop Dilip Ghosh from gun down anti-nationals. The Bengal BJP president has stuck to his stand.
“Contemptuously” dismissing Opposition queries as to whether “such statements are manifestations of Nazi mindset,” Ghosh on Wednesday confirmed: “I had given a well-thought out statement the other day,” adding “anti-nationals who destroy public property deserve to be shot like dogs. And I will again say that we will shoot at them when we come to power if they don’t stop destroying national property.”
When reminded how the Left, Congress and the Trinamool Congress have openly criticized him for harbouring such “Nazi mindset,” Ghosh recalled how “scores of brilliant students belonging to naxalite groups were shot dead by the police during the Siddhartha Shankar Ray Government in 1970s… Often these naxal activists were first released from jails and then shot dead from behind as they walked back to freedom… Was it a legal act?”
He then asked “how about the communists shooting dead 6 Forward Bloc members and eliminating the refugees in Marich Jhampi Islands?’ reminding as well how “Mamata Banerjee’s police shot dead 11 Gorkhas in Darjeeling Hills.”
If those acts were legal then “how my suggestion of shooting like dogs the anti-national elements — who destroy and torch public properties as they did by setting trains afire while protesting against the Citizenship Amendment Act— become illegal,” he added saying, “while the Assam and Uttar Pradesh Governments exhibited the right intent by shooting anti-nationals the Trinamool Congress not even filed an FIR or arrest anyone, or charged lathis, let alone opening fire.
This was done with an eye on the vote-bank politics which they have been pursuing since their inception.”
Ghosh had on Sunday told a crowd at Nadia that when the BJP would come to power it would shoot anti-nationals dead like dogs as it did in Assam, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh kicking off a storm of criticism and leading his party colleague and Union Minister Babul Supriyo to disapprove of his statement as a “personal view.”
Ghosh’s reiteration of the same view on Sunday and sudden silence of Supriyo clearly indicated on whose side the BJP high command was, the TMC leadership said. “Without the permission of the top leadership they do not speak.
So you have to understand from where Dilip Ghosh is getting his strength to speak all that non-sense.” Meanwhile in a related development Ghosh on Sunday trained his guns at the Bengal civil society for making symnbolic statements: vowing not to show “documents” apparently for verification on CAA.
“In a video-graphed blank verse that went viral a host of Bengali cine stars have iterated that they “will not show our papers” come what may. Reacting to the poetic presentation of their views against CAA Ghosh said “these are Namak Harams (traitors) who are reluctant to show their papers. They are inciting people. But do they not have to show papers at the air port, do they not shot tickets in cinema halls or do you not have to present your ration cards at the ration shop? These are mostly communists who are anti-nationals by nature.”