Kolkata:
The West Bengal unit of the BJP on Friday organised demonstrations all through the state to protest in direction of “political violence and murder of democracy”, and exhorted people to defeat the “jungle raj” of the TMC throughout the subsequent assembly elections.
Senior BJP leaders along with state president Dilip Ghosh, nationwide widespread secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, and Mukul Roy, took half in a sit-in on Mayo Road in Kolkata, as part of the get collectively’s “Ganatantra Bachao, Bangla Bachao” (Save democracy, Save Bengal) advertising marketing campaign.
“No person is protected in Bengal, be it the activists of an opposition get collectively or the widespread males. The oldsters of the state are fed up with the misrule of the TMC and are longing for a change. The corrupt and the undemocratic TMC authorities might be ousted from vitality throughout the subsequent elections,” Mr Ghosh talked about whereas addressing the demonstration.
He talked about that it was time to free Bengal of TMC’s “jungle raj” and that laws and order have totally collapsed throughout the state and the regulation enforcement officers have “turned activists of the ruling get collectively”.
“Over the past 5 years, political violence in Bengal has crossed all limits. Goons of the TMC have even attacked MLAs, leaders and activists of opposition political occasions. Democracy cannot be stifled on this methodology. The TMC is properly aware that it’ll seemingly be defeated throughout the subsequent elections. The get collectively has been crying foul over the utilization of EVMs, since Lok sabha polls. Let me make this clear, be it EVMs or ballots, we’ll defeat the get collectively in assembly polls along with civic polls,” Mr Ghosh talked about.
Mr Vijayvargiya lashed out at state authorities over the killings and assaults on BJP employees all through the state. “Plenty of of BJP employees have been killed, and spherical 2,000 get collectively employees falsely implicated and put behind bars. Time has come to take Bengal on the path of improvement and enchancment,” he talked about.
Comparable protests had been organised by the get collectively in every block of the state.
In Cooch Behar and Birbhum districts, nonetheless, sporadic clashes had been reported between the activists of the TMC and the BJP all through the advertising marketing campaign. Various activists of every the occasions reportedly sustained accidents throughout the clashes.
The police have rushed to the troubled areas to take administration of the situation.
Assembly elections are due in West Bengal in April-May subsequent 12 months.