Kolkata: BJP national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya on Wednesday warned chief minister Mamata Banerjee of dire consequences, after Trinamul Congress workers attacked the party’s head office in the state.
Mr Vijayvargiya said that if BJP also decides to resort to violence, then she (Mamata Banerjee) would not be able to address any rally in any part of the country.
“TMC is confined to Bengal, while BJP is a party which has its presence from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. If we also follow the path of violence, then would Didi be able to travel across the country? If TMC does not mend ways, we will also not sit silently,” Mr Vijayvargiya said, adding that BJP did not believe in Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violence idea.
The BJP observer in-charge of west Bengal also lashed out at city police commissioner Rajeev Kumar for tuning a ‘blind eye’ to the attack on the BJP office. He urged the CBI to investigate the alleged role of Mr Kumar in damaging evidence against TMC leaders in the chit fund scam during his tenure as the head of the SIT. He also called on Congress president Sonia Gandhi to spell out her party’s stand on the ponzi scam, and said why the party was rallying behind TMC on the issue when its own party leader Abdul Mannan’s appeal had promoted the SC to order a CBI inquiry into the chit fund scam.
“Sonia Gandhi should spell out her party’s stand on the ponzi scams in the state. On Tuesday, the Congress had said that the CBI arrests are nothing but witch-hunting. But the CBI is probe the case under the instructions of SC following an appeal by the party’s leader,” he said, adding that “even Rahul Gandhi last year spokes against Saradha and Narada scams. “So, why are they making those self-contradictory statements?,” Mr Vijayvargiya said.
“Meanwhile, a state BJP delegation met governor KN Tripathi at Raj Bhawan and apprised him about the deteriorating law and order situation in Bengal.
TMC workers manhandled several BJP leaders and attacked several offices of the party in Cooch Behar, Jalpaiguri, Durgapur, North 24 Parganas and Jadavpur. The workers also staged a protest outside the house of Union minister Babul Supriyo in North Kolkata and demanded his arrest in Rose Valley chit fund scam. In another incident reported at Chinsurah in Hooghly district, TMC workers set afire a BJP office.
On Tuesday, the state BJP general secretary Krishna Bhattacharya’s house was attacked with crude bombs. She was later admitted to Uttarpara State General Hospital, where her condition is stable.
