Bengal: Post-Poll Intimidation Leads to Hundreds of BJP Workers Still Living Away From Home
While BJP s own house is in disarray in Bengal, its grassroots-level workers have been forced to live in party offices or relatives houses face with alleged TMC violence.
The house of BJP worker Ramananda Koyal, at Diamond Harbour block 2. Koyal has alleged his house was ransacked by TMC workers. Photo: By arrangement.
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Kolkata: Giridhari Bagdi, the president of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, the youth wing of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), for Labpur âAâ mandal committee in Birbhum district, has been living in hiding, in an undisclosed location outside Birbhum, since May 2, when the results of the assembly elections were announced.
The post-poll violence in Bengal, the Covid situation in the country and preparations for a possible third wave of the virus are high on the agenda of an internal meeting of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, the ideological mentor of the BJP.
Sources in the TMC said most of the turncoats are now feeling that they are nowhere in Bengal’s political arena after the BJP lost the electoral battle.
Should have aligned with Trinamool in Bengal elections, says Congress Veerappa Moily
The former Union Minister also sought action against West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee President Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury for the poll debacle in the state.
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BENGALURU: Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily on Wednesday said his party should have struck an alliance with Mamata Banerjee s TMC in the recent West Bengal elections, even as he expressed anguish over ad- hocism in the grand old outfit.
The former Union Minister also sought action against West Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee President Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury for the poll debacle in the state, describing him as a weak leader with no grass-root touch .