Tag: Dilip Ghosh

  • ‘Surgical strikes’ by central agencies must to curb anti-national activities in Bengal: Dilip Ghosh

    Senior BJP leader Dilip Ghosh believes that under the TMC regime, West Bengal is sitting on a ticking time bomb and security and central agencies need to conduct “surgical strikes” to curb anti-national activities in the bordering state. In an interview with PTI, Ghosh expressed concern over a deep-rooted nexus of financial scams and terror modules in the state and predicted heightened activities by central agencies after the elections are over.

    “West Bengal, a bordering state, has witnessed not only a deteriorating law and order situation but also incidents detrimental to national security. Uncovering of bomb-making factories and terror modules indicate that Bengal has become a haven for infiltrators and anti-national elements,” he said.

    Asserting that a significant demographic shift in border areas due to TMC’s alleged politics of appeasement, Ghosh claimed that national security is at stake under the Trinamool regime, since the ruling party lacks control over the state’s affairs. The former state BJP president said, “There exists an anti-national chain in West Bengal, encompassing not only terror modules but also various corruption cases.”

    He alleged that under the TMC regime, several areas resemble Sandeshkhali and Bhoopatinagar, where anti-national elements are allowed a free run.

    “The state is on the verge of an explosion, and it is imperative that security and central agencies must conduct surgical strikes to safeguard it,” Ghosh stressed. Allegations of sexual abuse against TMC leaders have emerged recently at Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district. ED officials faced a mob attack there in January. At Bhoopatinagar in Purba Medinipur district too, an NIA team was allegedly attacked by a mob last week when it went to arrest two suspects in a 2022 blast case. Ghosh criticised the state police and CID for allegedly covering up these issues through biased investigations.

    Referring to Sandeshkhali and Bhoopatinagar, Ghosh accused the TMC of “playing with national security” and emphasized the BJP’s responsibility to protect the state.

    “After the elections are over, you will see how the central agencies unravel the conspiracy against the interests of the nation,” he said.

    Regarding the Citizenship Amendment Act, Ghosh questioned the TMC’s opposition to its implementation, saying “The CAA will clearly distinguish citizens from foreigners.”

    Ghosh asserted that the CAA will not only consolidate the Hindus in Bengal but also help the BJP sweep elections in the state.

    According to the CAA, the rules of which were notified on March 13, the government will grant Indian nationality to persecuted non-Muslim migrants – Hindus, Sikhs, Jains, Buddhists, Parsis, and Christians – from Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Afghanistan who arrived in India before December 31, 2014.

    On the anti-CAA protests that rocked parts of the state in 2019 after the law was passed by Parliament, Ghosh alleged those were engineered by infiltrators who are a voting bloc of the TMC.

    “The lungi party had come down to streets, burnt buses and public property to protest against the CAA. These people are capturing areas in Bengal and are eating into jobs of locals and facilities of the government,” he said.

    Asked about the possibility of a National Register of Citizens in the near future as apprehended by some opposition leaders, Ghosh said, “The NRC in Assam was done as per the Assam Accord and court order.”

    Assam witnessed a six-year-long agitation since 1979 demanding identification and deportation of illegal immigrants. The movement culminated in the signing of the Assam Accord.

    “The government did not do it on their own (in Assam). Now, if anyone moves court and wants NRC to be implemented and the court accepts the plea, then it might happen,” he said.

    Ghosh, an MP of the Medinipur Lok Sabha seat, who has now been shifted to Bardhaman-Durgapur constituency, has exuded confidence about his victory.

    “I am a loyal soldier of the party. Whatever assignment it gives me, I will accept it,” he said.

    Ghosh, when he was the West Bengal BJP head, led the party to significant electoral gains, overseeing its rise from two Lok Sabha seats in 2014 to 18 in 2019 and from three assembly seats in 2016 to 77 in 2021.

    Asked whether turncoats have a bigger say in the state of affairs in the BJP West Bengal unit, he said, “We were in a growing phase in Bengal and our local leaders and workers lacked experience. We had to bring in leaders from other parties to lead the party.”

    To a question, Ghosh said, “The party is accommodating both the old and new; that is how it is functioning in the entire country.”

    Ghosh, who is known for making controversial remarks had recently stirred a controversy by mocking the family background of Chief Minister and TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee in a purported video clip, said he believes in “calling spade a spade.”

    “I am a straightforward person, others might be wary of commenting on something. But I am not as I believe in politics, you need to speak in the language one understands,” he said.

  • CBI sold, so Centre asks ED to act: BJP’s national vice-president Dilip Ghosh

    By Express News Service

    KOLKATA: Embarrassing his own party, BJP’s national vice-president Dilip Ghosh on Sunday said that realising a section of CBI officers has been sold, the Centre has asked the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to swing into action and probe into corruption in Bengal.

    “A section of CBI officers is sold in exchange of lakhs or crores. Realising it, the Centre asked the ED to step in and probe into different cases of corruption in the state. The ruling TMC is scared because they cannot settle a deal with the ED as they did with the CBI,’’ said Ghosh at an event organised by the Ministry of Culture.

    Ghosh’s comment to attack the TMC came at a time when the saffron camp’s Bengal chapter maintained distance over the issue of the ongoing probes being conducted by the CBI and ED saying ‘’it is a matter which is under judiciary’’. A section of BJP leaders in Kolkata said Ghosh’s statement was aimed at attacking the TMC but, it actually gifted the ruling party a tool to lambast the saffron camp.

    “The TMC never misses an opportunity to accuse the central agencies to act at the behest of the BJP. Ghosh’s comment will strengthen their allegation of embarrassing us,’’ said a BJP leader.

    TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh raised questions asking whether Ghosh raised his finger at the BJP-ruled central government. ‘’By mentioning CBI’s deal, did Ghosh point his finger at someone within the BJP? Did he indicate why Leader of Opposition Subhendu Adhikari is not being touched by the CBI?’’ Ghosh asked.

    Adhikari, the former lieutenant of Mamata Banerjee, is one of the accused in Narada sting operation case in which several persons having resemblance with TMC leaders and ministers were seen accepting money from the representatives of a fictitious company.

    In May, Ghosh was asked by the BJP’s central leadership not to make any comment which could embarrass the party. Earlier, he also alleged that the CBI was not acting promptly in the alleged recruitment scam in schools promptly despite the high court’s order.  

    The CBI, however, said arrested TMC strongman Anubrata Mondal played the role of an ‘’omnipotent facilitator’’ to smuggle cattle into neighbouring Bangladesh. After interrogating the politician, whom chief minister Mamata Banerjee supported after his arrest, the sleuths of the central agency said Mondal’s powerful network of his men ensured safe passage for cattle movement through Birbhum district to Malda and Murshidabad which share a border with Bangladesh.

    ­‘’At least seven police stations in Murshidabad districts are under our scanner. The cattle smugglers used the route that passes through the jurisdiction of these police stations,’’ said a CBI officer.

    KOLKATA: Embarrassing his own party, BJP’s national vice-president Dilip Ghosh on Sunday said that realising a section of CBI officers has been sold, the Centre has asked the Enforcement Directorate (ED) to swing into action and probe into corruption in Bengal.

    “A section of CBI officers is sold in exchange of lakhs or crores. Realising it, the Centre asked the ED to step in and probe into different cases of corruption in the state. The ruling TMC is scared because they cannot settle a deal with the ED as they did with the CBI,’’ said Ghosh at an event organised by the Ministry of Culture.

    Ghosh’s comment to attack the TMC came at a time when the saffron camp’s Bengal chapter maintained distance over the issue of the ongoing probes being conducted by the CBI and ED saying ‘’it is a matter which is under judiciary’’. A section of BJP leaders in Kolkata said Ghosh’s statement was aimed at attacking the TMC but, it actually gifted the ruling party a tool to lambast the saffron camp.

    “The TMC never misses an opportunity to accuse the central agencies to act at the behest of the BJP. Ghosh’s comment will strengthen their allegation of embarrassing us,’’ said a BJP leader.

    TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh raised questions asking whether Ghosh raised his finger at the BJP-ruled central government. ‘’By mentioning CBI’s deal, did Ghosh point his finger at someone within the BJP? Did he indicate why Leader of Opposition Subhendu Adhikari is not being touched by the CBI?’’ Ghosh asked.

    Adhikari, the former lieutenant of Mamata Banerjee, is one of the accused in Narada sting operation case in which several persons having resemblance with TMC leaders and ministers were seen accepting money from the representatives of a fictitious company.

    In May, Ghosh was asked by the BJP’s central leadership not to make any comment which could embarrass the party. Earlier, he also alleged that the CBI was not acting promptly in the alleged recruitment scam in schools promptly despite the high court’s order.  

    The CBI, however, said arrested TMC strongman Anubrata Mondal played the role of an ‘’omnipotent facilitator’’ to smuggle cattle into neighbouring Bangladesh. After interrogating the politician, whom chief minister Mamata Banerjee supported after his arrest, the sleuths of the central agency said Mondal’s powerful network of his men ensured safe passage for cattle movement through Birbhum district to Malda and Murshidabad which share a border with Bangladesh.

    ­‘’At least seven police stations in Murshidabad districts are under our scanner. The cattle smugglers used the route that passes through the jurisdiction of these police stations,’’ said a CBI officer.

  • Will abide by the party’s instructions: BJP national vice-president Dilip Ghosh

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: A day after being cautioned by the central leadership, BJP national vice-president Dilip Ghosh on Wednesday said he will abide by instructions from the party leadership.

    Taking exception to Ghosh’s “critical” comments against the party’s state unit, the BJP top brass warned him against speaking out as he had done in the past.

    “I will abide by the party’s instructions,” Ghosh told reporters.

    He, however, maintained that he would take up the matter with the leadership on how confidential party communication was leaked to the media even before it reached him.

    Ghosh among other things had urged the state president Sukanta Majumdar to take everybody along besides speaking of Majumdar’s inexperience as a leader.

    This saw BJP national general secretary Arun Singh cautioning Ghosh on speaking against party leaders in public forums in a strongly-worded letter.

    Maintaining that the letter has been issued on the instructions of BJP president JP Nadda, Singh said he wished to convey the party’s deep anguish and concern at the issuance of such statements and “advise you (Ghosh) to always refrain from going to the media or any public fora about your own colleagues either in the state of West Bengal or anywhere else”.

  • TMC claims Dilip Ghosh being ‘shunted’ out of Bengal, BJP hits back 

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: In what seemed to be a word of advice for BJP national vice-president Dilip Ghosh, the TMC on Thursday said he should oppose the attempt by the saffron party leadership to “shunt him out of Bengal by assigning him responsibilities in other states.

    Ghosh, whose tenure as Bengal BJP president has by far garnered maximum gains for the saffron camp, has been recently asked to look after organisational matters in other states by the top brass.

    The BJP leader asserted that he would continue to play a vital role in the Bengal unit, despite his responsibilities in other states, but the TMC termed it as an “attempt to clip his wings”.

    “Dilip Ghosh is a dear friend. I feel bad for him. The injustice meted out to him is unfair. I feel he should protest against this injustice. We want him to stay in Bengal,” senior TMC leader and state minister Firhad Hakim said.

    Echoing him, TMC general secretary Kunal Ghosh said the BJP leader should “oppose the ploy to sideline him by a section of party leaders”.

    “It is unfortunate to see the way he is being treated by others in the party. Dilip Ghosh should oppose it; he has our full support,” the TMC leader said.

    The development came days after BJP MP and state vice-president Arjun Singh rejoined the ruling TMC, calling it his “homecoming”.

    However, Ghosh denied attaching much importance to the statements by the TMC leaders and said the decision to assign responsibilities of other states to him or for that matter any other leader is very much part of BJP’s usual style of functioning.

    “It isn’t an exceptional decision. Leaders and national office bearers are often assigned responsibilities in other states. This doesn’t mean I can’t look after organisational matters in West Bengal. I don’t attach much importance to what others say,” he said.

    State BJP spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya said a “regional party like TMC can never understand the functioning of a national party”.

    “Those who don’t understand the functioning of a national party and have never been part of any pan-India party make such naive comments,” he said.

    The state BJP unit had been fighting hard to keep its flock together after former union minister Babul Supriyo and five legislators, including its national vice-president Mukul Roy, switched over to the TMC, following last year’s Assembly polls.

  • None becomes seasoned overnight, Bengal BJP chief on Dilip Ghosh’s ‘new’ leader remark 

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: Days after BJP national vice-president Dilip Ghosh said Sukanta Majumdar, who succeeded him as the party’s West Bengal unit president, is relatively new for his post, the incumbent state chief on Sunday asserted that none becomes seasoned overnight.

    Majumdar, the MP of Balurghat in north Bengal, said that every person is new when appointed to a post and Ghosh was no exception when he became the state party president for the first time in 2015.

    Ghosh, however, struck a conciliatory note during the day saying he had meant that being new for the post, Majumdar will be able to impart a fresh approach and give a dynamic leadership to the state BJP.

    Majumdar, who had declined to comment initially, said: “Dilipda is a senior leader, but let me point out that when someone first takes over, he is new to the post. None becomes experienced overnight.”

    “When Dilip-da had been appointed as the state BJP head, he was relatively new. It happens to every occupant of every post,” he told reporters to a question.

    Ghosh had said on Thursday that Majumdar should take everyone along and the party should work as a united force to be able to fight against the alleged misrule of the Trinamool Congress.

    “Sukanta Majumdar is comparatively new; it is quite obvious that he is taking time to adjust,” he had said.

    His comments were preceded by the party’s recent debacle in by-polls in the state, following which several senior BJP members hit out at the state unit leadership for allegedly failing to identify the “lacunae” plaguing the party.

    However, Ghosh said on Sunday: “what I meant was Sukanta Majumdar being a fresh face helming the BJP in West Bengal will be able to give a new thrust to the fight against the Trinamool Congress.”

    “Everyone has his own style of functioning. I am ready to extend all cooperation to Sukanta. We have been working in unison,” he told reporters.

    Majumdar replaced Ghosh as the state party unit chief in September 2021, months after the BJP faced an electoral drubbing in the assembly election.

    However, Ghosh became the national vice-president then.

    The party also did not fare well in later elections and its internal bickering came to the fore.

    TMC candidate Bollywood actor Shatrughan Sinha defeated the BJP’s Agnimitra Paul by over 3,00,000 votes in the Asansol Lok Sabha by-election.

    Former Union minister Babul Supriyo, who quit the BJP to join the TMC last year, clinched the Ballygunge assembly seat in Kolkata in a by-poll, beating his nearest CPI(M) rival by 20,228 votes.

    The BJP came third there. 

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  • Troubel in Bengal BJP? Amid Dilip Ghosh vs Tathagata Roy, another leader quits party

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: BJP national vice-president Dilip Ghosh on Saturday hit out at veteran colleague and former Meghalaya governor Tathagata Roy over his recent criticism of the organisation’s style of functioning, and sought to know why he wasn’t leaving the party if he was so upset.

    Roy had been critical of the decisions taken by former West Bengal minder Kailash Vijayvargiya, Ghosh, who was earlier the party’s state president, and senior leaders Arvind Menon and Shiv Prakash, blaming them in a series of tweets for the saffron camp’s poor show in the March-April assembly polls.

    He also claimed that there was “no chance” of Vijayvargiya returning to the state to oversee the operations of the Bengal BJP unit.

    Asked to comment on Roy’s frequent jibe at him, Menon and Vijayvargiya, the former BJP state president told reporters, without taking any name, “If you are so upset and ashamed of all that is happening within the party, why don’t you just leave?” The Midnapore MP, who was on his way to Delhi to attend the BJP central working committee meeting, further stated, “You (Tathagata) did nothing for the party in the recent times. But the party did everything for people like you.”

    Roy, when contacted, maintained that he would not want to attach much importance to what Ghosh said.

    BJP state president Sukanta Majumder, however, steered clear of the controversy andunderlined that it was the “prerogative of the central leadership” to take a call on the comment made by Tathagata Roy.

    Roy had told reporters last month that he was “ashamed of some top-level leaders like Vijayvargiya as, ahead of the Bengal assembly polls, they were swayed by the glamour factor while inducting people into the BJP and did not take experience and chances of winning into consideration”.

    Actor-turned-BJP leader Joy Banerjee on Saturday said he has decided to resign from the primary membership of the party, after having “faced neglect” in the recent years.

    Banerjee, who joined the BJP in 2014 and unsuccessfully contested Lok Sabha elections twice, also said that he has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, informing him about his decision to sever all association with the saffron party.

    “I want to work for common people and that isn’t quite possible if I continue to be a part of the BJP,” he told reporters.

    Mentioning that he has been removed from BJP National Executive, Banerjee further said, “My security has also been taken away by the central leadership. I am not a new member; I had joined the party way back in 2014.”

    “I had told Narendra Modi in 2017 that I would want to do more for the organisation. But there was no response. I won’t tolerate more neglect,” he added.

    To a question if he had any plan to join the Trinamool Congress, Banerjee said he hasn’t taken any such decision as yet.

    “All I know is that I would want to work for people,” he iterated.

  • Trouble in Bengal BJP? Amid Dilip Ghosh vs Tathagata Roy, another leader quits party

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: BJP national vice-president Dilip Ghosh on Saturday hit out at veteran colleague and former Meghalaya governor Tathagata Roy over his recent criticism of the organisation’s style of functioning, and sought to know why he wasn’t leaving the party if he was so upset.

    Roy had been critical of the decisions taken by former West Bengal minder Kailash Vijayvargiya, Ghosh, who was earlier the party’s state president, and senior leaders Arvind Menon and Shiv Prakash, blaming them in a series of tweets for the saffron camp’s poor show in the March-April assembly polls.

    He also claimed that there was “no chance” of Vijayvargiya returning to the state to oversee the operations of the Bengal BJP unit.

    Asked to comment on Roy’s frequent jibe at him, Menon and Vijayvargiya, the former BJP state president told reporters, without taking any name, “If you are so upset and ashamed of all that is happening within the party, why don’t you just leave?” The Midnapore MP, who was on his way to Delhi to attend the BJP central working committee meeting, further stated, “You (Tathagata) did nothing for the party in the recent times. But the party did everything for people like you.”

    Roy, when contacted, maintained that he would not want to attach much importance to what Ghosh said.

    BJP state president Sukanta Majumder, however, steered clear of the controversy andunderlined that it was the “prerogative of the central leadership” to take a call on the comment made by Tathagata Roy.

    Roy had told reporters last month that he was “ashamed of some top-level leaders like Vijayvargiya as, ahead of the Bengal assembly polls, they were swayed by the glamour factor while inducting people into the BJP and did not take experience and chances of winning into consideration”.

    Actor-turned-BJP leader Joy Banerjee on Saturday said he has decided to resign from the primary membership of the party, after having “faced neglect” in the recent years.

    Banerjee, who joined the BJP in 2014 and unsuccessfully contested Lok Sabha elections twice, also said that he has written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, informing him about his decision to sever all association with the saffron party.

    “I want to work for common people and that isn’t quite possible if I continue to be a part of the BJP,” he told reporters.

    Mentioning that he has been removed from BJP National Executive, Banerjee further said, “My security has also been taken away by the central leadership. I am not a new member; I had joined the party way back in 2014.”

    “I had told Narendra Modi in 2017 that I would want to do more for the organisation. But there was no response. I won’t tolerate more neglect,” he added.

    To a question if he had any plan to join the Trinamool Congress, Banerjee said he hasn’t taken any such decision as yet.

    “All I know is that I would want to work for people,” he iterated.

  • Trinamool Congress, BJP spar over fuel tax

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: The TMC on Saturday alleged that the BJP was indulging in “cheap politics” over fuel tax, even as the saffron camp said that it “might be forced to organise protests,” if the state government does not slash Value Added Tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel.

    The Centre recently reduced excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 5 and Rs 10 respectively, and many states, including Odisha and Bihar, followed suit and cut VAT on the two products.

    West Bengal, however, hasn’t made any similar announcement followed by the state unit of BJP urging the Mamata Banerjee government to take a cue from the Centre and provide relief to people.

    TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said, “The BJP is doing cheap politics over fuel prices as its inertia in stemming the skyrocketing prices of petrol, diesel and LPG has been exposed. It has slashed excise duty on petrol and diesel a bit, fine! But that is too little, too less.”

    Stating that the revenue realised from fuel tax by the Centre is far more than that of states, Ghosh further suggested that some parity should be maintained.

    BJP national vice-president Dilip Ghosh, on his part, contended that “we might be forced to go on protest,” if the Mamata Banerjee government did not reduce VAT on fuel.

    Sukanta Majumder, the Bengal president of the saffron camp, also demanded an immediate cut on the tax levied by the state on petrol and diesel.

    “Opposition-ruled states like West Bengal and Delhi among others are not doing their bit. Mind it, the Biplab Deb government in Tripura has substantially reduced VAT. The TMC has been levelling multiple allegations against the Tripura government, but it wouldn’t do its part in Bengal,” he added.

  • BJP to step up demand for disqualification of MLAs who have joined Trinamool

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: BJP leaders Friday said the party will step up its demand for disqualification of MLAs who had defected from the party and joined TMC without giving up their Assembly seats as they were elected on the saffron party’s tickets.

    The BJP, they said, will not let such a matter pass unlike Congress and the CPI-M in the past when TMC resorted “to the same trick” to take away their legislators.

    Those who had quit BJP will be defeated in the party in the by-poll that will take place after they are disqualified, they said at a felicitation programme here.

    West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumder said the party will not back out of any fight against “undemocratic and pro-appeasement” politics of TMC in all polls ranging from the general election to that for the panchayats.

    “Dates of the civic bodies polls may be announced in November. Please remember BJP will fight with equal gusto the local bodies elections the way we fought the Lok Sabha or Assembly polls. If we stay in the field the corrupt, undemocratic, appeasement practitioner TMC will be defeated from Bengal one day,” he added.

    Accusing TMC of borrowing the ‘Jai Bangla’ slogan of Bongobondhu Muzibur Rahman, he said “We don’t have any issue if you keep chanting Jai Bangla. Shout as much you want but why you are so jittery about Jai Shri Ram, which is integrated to the hearts of crores of Indians! “Why do you react when people chant Jai Shri Ram before you on the street, at public events? Don’t you love our Ram?,” Majumder asked.

    Leader of Opposition and party leader, Suvendu Adhikari said that BJP will press its demand for disqualification of MLAs who defected from the party to the ruling TMC without resigning from their seats.

    “We will not let this kind of defection pass. BJP will not rest till Mukul Roy steps down as the legislator of Krishnanagar North. The party will then take up the cases of other defectors, contest and win the by-polls that will follow,” he added.

    The BJP had won 77 out of the 292 Assembly seats which went to the poll in April-May.

    Four of them defected to the TMC, while two others resigned to retain their membership in the Lok Sabha.

    Mukul Roy was the national vice-president of BJP and had fought and won on a saffron party ticket.

    BJP national vice-president Dilip Ghosh said TMC had resorted to the same trick “violating all ethics” to take away CPI-M and Congress MLAs in the last 10 years.

    “The CPI-M and Congress did not have the courage to fight TMC on the issue as they were afraid of losing the by-poll. But BJP is made of sterner stuff. We will teach TMC a lesson,” he added.

    Ghosh further alleged that over 160 BJP members have been murdered by TMC in the past few years and despite repeated reminders the government did not take any action against the attackers.

    “Over 50 BJP activists have been killed since May 2, the date of publication of Assembly results. The TMC government would have brushed it under the carpet had the judiciary not intervened, human rights panel not brought out the truth and the CBI did not carry out probes,” Ghosh added.

    He said BJP will continue to play the role of opposition and unravel the misdeeds of the Mamata Banerjee government.

    Ruling out the allegations brought by BJP against the TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee that she had sought “100 per cent votes” from members of a particular community but did not making same pitch in respect of communities during her campaign at Bhabanipur by-poll, state minister Firhad Hakim said it is the saffron party which professes this ideology of division and hatred.

    “Not the TMC. BJP’s ideology is apparent from their attempt to weave a communal narrative for every single incident,” he said when asked.

    Banerjee had asked every voter in Bhabanipur assembly constituency to come for voting on the by-poll day, not in any particular pocket, Hakim added.

    He further said BJP’s dreams of coming to power in Bengal will never be realised and they will always be rejected by the people of Bengal.”