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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.
Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh on Friday told his colleagues that he had asked national leaders to leave for Delhi and the local unit would be able to manage on its own, multiple sources in the party said.
Several state BJP leaders claimed that Ghosh’s statement finally vindicated Mamata Banerjee’s claim that the people campaigning for the saffron camp during the Bengal elections were “bohiragawto (outsiders)”.
“While addressing us, Dilipda said he was asked by the central leaders if they should stay or leave. He said he had told them to leave if they wanted to and the state unit could take care of the party’s affairs in Bengal,” a state committee member of the BJP said.
BJP leaders in many south Bengal districts are facing a challenge they dare not publicly admit meeting the party’s stiff target of over 50,000 people per district to the Brigade Parade Grounds in Calcutta for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Sunday rally.
On Saturday evening, many BJP leaders on the ground admitted without wanting to be named that meeting such targets were “practically impossible” from areas with a substantial minority population and where the party’s organisational strength is poor.
These apart, there are smaller yet significant hurdles. For instance, BJP workers said that in districts such as East Burdwan and Hooghly, many supporters are farmers busy with potato harvesting.