Tripura unit of BJP on Wednesday stood in solidarity with the violence stricken BJP workers of West Bengal and held protest programmes across the state.
All the senior leaders of the party including Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb, MP Pratima Bhowmik, Deputy Chief Minister Jishnu Dev Varman, Deputy Speaker Biswabandhu Sen, Agriculture minister Pranajit Singha Roy and all the MLAs extended condolences to the bereaved BJP families who lost their dear ones owing to the violence through lighting candles in front of their residences and prayed for the departed souls.
Earlier in the morning, symbolic protests were held in every Mondol. BJP leaders holding placards participated in the silent protests across the state in a minimum number due to the Covid 19 restrictions.
Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb condemning the violent attacks said that people were left terrified in Bengal soon after the election results were declared. “We are extremely hurt by the way BJP Karyakartas are killed. We are praying for the departed souls”, he added.
Speaking on the issue, MP Pratima Bhowmik compared the persecution being meted out to the BJP Karyakartas in Bengal to the partition of Bengal that witnessed huge bloodshed.
“Our Karyakartas are being mercilessly thrashed. Party offices are being set afire. Shops are being ransacked, houses looted. The miscreants had not even left the women. Today women of every age from a daughter to an elderly mother were facing attacks in Bengal”, said she.
“You must have seen in the social media as to how a polling agent of BJP has been lynched to death just because of his political affiliation. So as per the direction of party high command we are holding this solidarity protest”, she further alleged.
Accusing TMC chief Mamata Banerjee of sponsoring the culture of violence, she said, in 2011, defeating the Communists,Trinamool adopted the culture of violence and continued to sponsor it the way communists spearheaded violence after every election. Similarly, she said, after these elections the game of bloodshed begins once again.