Bengal: BJP To Gherao BDO Offices Tomorrow Alleging Irregularities In Panchayat Polls
The proposed programme by BJP was announced by its state party president Sukanta Majumdar on Wednesday.
The Bharatiya Janata Party will gherao block district offices across West Bengal on Friday alleging the ruling Trinamool Congress of irregularities in the panchayat polls held earlier this month, said the party’s top leader on Wednesday. The gherao will come on the day when TMC holds its annual Martyrs' Day rally in state capital Kolkata. The TMC hit back at the saffron party saying it was trying to foment trouble on July 21, which has become synonymous with the sacrifice of life by martyrs for the restoration of democracy in the state.
Meanwhile, BJP leader Rahul Sinha on Thursday claimed that "hundreds of BJP candidates are hiding in different places and not able to go to their homes due to TMCs violence" and demanded to make the situation better.
The proposed programme by BJP was announced by its state party president Sukanta Majumdar on Wednesday. He accused a section of state government officials of aiding and abetting false voting, loot of ballot and booth jam during the rural poll in more than 6,000 booths.
Majumdar, along with other state-level senior party leaders ike Suvendu Adhikari, former state presidents Dilip Ghosh, Rahul Sinha, besides Agnimitra Paul, Locket Chatterjee walked in a rally from Kolkata’s College Square to Esplanade area protesting against alleged rigging by TMC activists across West Bengal during the rural poll. More than 2000 BJP activists participated in the rally.
BJP seems not to have learnt any lesson despite being rejected by the people of Bengal in successive polls, said TMC Rajya Sabha MP Santanu Sen.
TMC claimed that the saffron party is trying to foment trouble on July 21, which has become synonymous with the ultimate sacrifice of martyrs on the day 30 years ago in 1993 for restoration of democracy.
Dilip Ghosh said TMC observes July 21 as Martyrs' Day but has forgotten the ultimate sacrifice of 13 Congress activists who fell to police bullets in 1993 for free and fair voting and upholding of democratic values.
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