Accepting the invitation for a public debate with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha President Tejasvi Surya nominated BJYM’s Vice President Abhinav Prakash. It is pertinent to note that the invitation was extended to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi by Retired Justice Madan B Lokur, Justice Ajit P Shah, and journalist N Ram for a debate on the key election issues. Tejasvi Surya proposed the name of Abhinav Prakash, stating that he is from a Dalit caste, Pasi, which makes up a significant proportion of over 30 pc of the scheduled caste population in Raebareli where Rahul Gandhi is contesting in the current Lok Sabha election.
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BJYM activist’s autopsy report indicates death by hanging; TMC asks Shah to apologise
By PTI
KOLKATA: The autopsy report of BJYM activist Arjun Chourasia, conducted by Command Hospital here and submitted to Calcutta High Court on Tuesday, indicated that he died by hanging and the ligature mark on his neck was ante-mortem in nature.
The report submitted the post-mortem report in a sealed cover before a division bench presided by Chief Justice Prakash Shrivastava.
The Trinamool Congress was quick to launch an attack on the BJP which had been holding demonstrations after the body of the activist was found hanging in an abandoned house as well as an apology from Union Home Minister Amit Shah who had described it as a “political murder”.
Shah had visited Kashipur and demanded a CBI probe into Chourasia’s death, claiming a culture of violence and a fear psychosis prevailed in West Bengal.
“The union home minister had called it a political murder even before the probe was over. He should now apologise to the people for trying to tarnish the image of the state,” senior TMC leader and minister Shashi Panja said.
The TMC leader added, “The BJP is continuously maligning the people of Bengal. This stems from its failure to win the assembly election.”
Reacting to the TMC remarks, the state BJP unit said it would not be right to comment on a sub-judice matter.
The autopsy was conducted by a team of experts constituted by the head of Command Hospital, a defence healthcare establishment, as per an order of the court passed on Friday.
The bench noted in its order that the findings relating to the cause of death of Chourasia is “hanging” and the ligature mark on his neck is “ante-mortem”.
The post-mortem report was handed over by the court to Advocate General S N Mookherjee representing the West Bengal government. It directed that the viscera sample be handed over to police authority concerned.
BJP leader and lawyer Priyanka Tibrewal had submitted earlier to the court that the family does not have faith in the investigation being conducted by the Kolkata Police, which has already formed a special investigation team to probe Chourasia’s death.
Claiming that Chourasia was one of many BJP workers who had to leave their homes during post-poll violence and had recently returned to his residence, Tibrewal also prayed before the court that the case be handed over to the CBI in accordance with its earlier order that directed probe by the central agency in cases of murders, rapes and attempts to rape that took place after the 2021 West Bengal assembly elections.
AG submitted that the police has formed an SIT to investigate the matter, treating it as a case of unnatural death. The bench directed that the matter will be taken up for hearing again on May 19.
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Bengal BJYM leader Mithun Ghosh shot dead at home; BJP calls general strike
By PTI
RAIGANJ: A 37-year-old Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) leader was shot dead at his home in West Bengal’s Uttar Dinajpur district and the police arrested one person in this connection, an official said on Monday.
Mithun Ghosh, district vice-president of the BJP’s youth wing, was fired upon at around 9.30 pm on Sunday in Itahar area.
When he was taken to Raiganj Medical College and Hospital, doctors declared him brought dead, Superintendent of Police Mohammed Sana Akhtar told PTI.
The BJP called an eight-hour general strike in Uttar Dinajpur district on Tuesday to protest against the killing.
Ghosh had gone out with two persons and brought home a couple of firearms.
The bullet which killed him was fired from one of those weapons, the SP said.
“It is still not clear how the incident occurred. It was also not known yet why he had brought the two firearms. We are investigating the matter,” Akhtar said.
The police registered an FIR after Ghosh’s cousin lodged a complaint alleging that two persons with whom the BJYM leader had gone out on Sunday were involved in the murder.
The SP said one of the two accused was arrested while a search is on for the other.
District Additional SP Arsh Verma said no political connection with the murder has been found yet.
Saffron party leaders, however, claimed that goons sheltered by the ruling Trinamool Congress gunned down Ghosh, a charge denied by the TMC.
“Uttar Dinajpur dist. @BJYMVP Mithun Ghosh has been shot dead by assailants at Itahar. This is TMC’s handiwork written all over it. The bloodthirsty antisocial hound dogs who executed their master’s orders would be taken to task when the tide turns. We won’t forget Mithun Ghosh,” Leader of the Opposition in West Bengal assembly Suvendu Adhikari tweeted.
BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar announced an eight-hour general strike in the district from 6 am on Tuesday.
The BJP’s Uttar Dinajpur district president Basudeb Sarkar said, “It is a planned murder. We will launch an agitation across the district if the culprits are not arrested within 24 hours.”
Shantu Ghosh, the father of the deceased, claimed that a group of men led by a local TMC leader fired at his son while he was entering home on Sunday night.
The allegations are baseless and politically motivated, TMC state general secretary Kunal Ghosh said.
“The TMC is not at all involved in the incident. The police investigation is on. The truth will come out,” he said.
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2022 UP polls: Tejasvi Surya takes ‘Bhaijaan’ jibe at Samajwadi Party
Express News Service
LUCKNOW: Taking the controversial ‘Abbajaan’ jibe of UP CM Yogi Adityanath further, BJP MP and national president of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM), Tejasvi Surya slammed the previous Samajwadi Party (SP) regime during which, he claimed, the policy of appeasement of one community was followed but the interests of only one family were protected.
“While the principle of ‘sabka saath, sabka vishwas’ is being followed in extending the benefits of welfare schemes in the present dispensation headed by Yogiji, the previous government the norm was ‘Bhaijaan ke saath… Mian ka Vishwaas aur Apna Vikas,” said the BJYM chief.
While delivering the inaugural address of the BJYM working committee meeting in Lucknow on Friday, Surya claimed that it was only after Yogi came to power that the equal development of all sections of the society started in UP.
The firebrand BJP MP from Bengaluru (south) assured the party of all help in the upcoming assembly polls early next year. He said that he along with his team would visit all six organisational regions and each of 18 divisions in the state to assist the party in the run-up to the electoral battle of 2022.
“UP elections results have nationwide repercussions. We will ensure that the party gets a bigger mandate in 2022 than 2017,” he said. Taking a jibe at the opposition, the BJYM chief said: “Haathi thak gaya hai…cycle puncture ho gayi hai. sab jagah bas kamal hi kamal khilega” (The elephant has got tired and the cycle is punctured. Now only lotus will bloom everywhere in UP).
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with all praise for law and order in the state, Surya referred to senior SP leader and Rampur MP Azam Khan and BSP’s Mau MLA Mukhtar Ansari as “mafias” who were behind the bars for their deeds. He also paid tributes to former UP CM late Kalyan Singh calling him a Hindutva icon who played a pivotal role in saving Sanatan civilisation. Surya added that the firebrand leader was the one “who had integrity, character and commitment”.
At the same time, he credited PM Narendra Modi and scores of BJYM workers for the “500-year-old dream” of Ram temple taking shape in Ayodhya.
Listing out the achievements of the central government, Surya said whether it was the abrogation of Article 370 and Article 35(A), the law against Triple Talaq or Citizen Amendment Act (CAA), BJP did what it promised.
However, addressing the concluding session of the BJYM working committee meeting, CM Yogi called upon the youth of the state to make Uttar Pradesh the number one economy and take the state ahead on the path of development.
“The energy of youth is the power of a nation. The next six years are going to be very crucial for the development of Uttar Pradesh. We have to ensure that if UP is biggest in terms of population, it should be number one in terms of the economy also,” said CM Yogi. He added that his government was heading in the right direction and the state which used to be in the number six position has jumped to become the number two economy in the country.
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Discontent in Bengal BJP? Saumitra Khan quits as state chief of party’s youth wing
By Express News Service
KOLKATA: Sharp discontent in the BJP’s Bengal chapter surfaced as BJP MP Saumitra Khan Wednesday quit as the state president of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM).Soon after the move, Khan accused party MLA and Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari of misleading the saffron camp’s high command. He also alleged that Adhikari had brought 128 TMC leaders under the umbrella of the BJP who were not acceptable among the common people for their unclean image.
Former TMC minister-turned-BJP candidate in the Assembly elections Rajib Banerjee too lashed out at Adhikari saying the Leader of Opposition should be more focused on the hike in petrol and diesel prices than attacking CM Mamata Banerjee.
“The way the BJP is functioning in Bengal, it will not be good for the future. Everything is happening here according to what a leader is saying. He is visiting Delhi again and again and misleading the party’s central leadership. It is as if he sacrificed a lot for the party. There are many in the party who, too, sacrificed a lot. The state president (Dilip Ghosh) understands only half of the words,” Khan, without dropping Adhikari’s name, said shortly after announcing her decision to step down from the portfolio on a social medial platform.
Adhikari made several trips to Delhi in the recent past and met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP high-command, including national president JP Nadda and Union Home minister Amit Shah.
Castigating the saffron camp’s decision to induct TMCs turncoats ahead of the Assembly elections, Khan said, “After a TMC leader joined the BJP, 128 others followed her. The thieves in a group came a month before the election. I am disappointed with the way the rights are being exercised.”
The haughty parliamentarian did not forget to claim to be “clean”. “I have not even taken hundred rupees from the party or anyone. I have not joined the party with any self-interest. I live in a one-storey house. I will fight as an ordinary BJP worker for the rest of my life,” he said.
Reacting to Khan’s allegation, Adhikari said, “He (Khan) is my colleague in the party. I will not comment on it. I would like you not to take the issue seriously.”
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BJP MP Saumitra Khan quits as BJYM’s Bengal chief, slams Suvendu Adhikari for ‘misleading central leaders’
By PTI
KOLKATA: The growing discord in the BJP’s Bengal unit came to the fore on Wednesday as Lok Sabha MP Saumitra Khan stepped down from the post of the party’s state youth wing chief and took to Facebook to launch a blistering attack on Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, claiming that he tries to take credit for all saffron camp achievements.Khan did not cite any reason but his announcement on Facebook coincided with the report that some BJP MPs from Bengal might be made union ministers of state.
The Bishnupur MP, however, asserted that he wouldn’t quit the saffron party.
“From today, due to personal reasons, I am relieving myself of the responsibility of Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) state unit. I was in BJP, I am in BJP, and will continue to be a part of it,” Khan, who had crossed over to the saffron camp in 2018 from the TMC, said on Facebook.
Iterating that he has full faith in Narendra Modi and the central leadership, he, however, trained guns on Adhikari and said that “one particular leader was making frequent trips to Delhi and claiming credit for every success of the party”.
“This leader of opposition in the state should look in the mirror. He is misleading the leaders of New Delhi. He considers himself the tallest leader of the party in Bengal,” Khan said in a video that he posted on the networking site.
He claimed leaders of just one or two districts are running the entire organisation in the state.
In a dig at state BJP president Dilip Ghosh, the disgruntled leader further said, “He understands only half of what happens. He cannot comprehend all of it.”
Sharing responsibility for the party’s defeat in assembly polls, Khan said, “It is time for me to step down. I have never hankered for any post.”
Alleging that “many politicians with dubious credentials had been inducted into the BJP before assembly polls”, Khan said, “Some of them were nominated and they failed to win the elections.”
He further said that “it appears only some people made sacrifices for the party and the rest had no contribution”.
Adhikari, on his part, refused to respond to Khan’s allegations.
“I will not comment. I will not take it seriously. He is my younger brother. I will go and have lunch at his residence in Delhi. I had campaigned for Saumitra Khan in Kotulpur in 2011. I wish him every success in his career,” he maintained.
The leader of opposition also said that he doesn’t attach much importance to Facebook videos.
Asked if any disciplinary action would be taken against Khan, he said, “I shouldn’t talk on organisational matters. It will be decided by state president Dilip Ghosh.”
Reacting to Khan’s comments, TMC state general secretary Kunal Ghosh said the rivalry between the old and the new leaders of the saffron camp is now out in the open.
“Suvendu had enjoyed power in TMC before joining the BJP. Now he is cornering other leaders in the saffron party. Old and loyal members are bound to get upset,” Ghosh said.
Khan’s estranged wife and TMC leader Sujata Mondal said he had warned the MP against joining the BJP long ago.
“He should understand that a party like the BJP will back elements like Adhikari. I had realised this long back,” she added.
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Today may be the announcement of the state executive of BJYM …
The list of state executive of BJYM is still pending. If party sources agree, some names are not being agreed. But today workers can get good news. That is, the working committee of Bharatiya Janata Party Yuva Morcha can be announced today. The executive has not been announced so far because of lack of coordination between the top leaders of the organization. The names of the candidates were not announced yet due to the issue of dragging in the state executive. The state office is meeting daily in the Kushabhau Thackeray campus these days. But the names could not be agreed. If party sources are to be believed, today the state executive of BJYM may be announced.