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  • TMC muzzling the voice of the people in Bengal: Sukanta Majumdar

    By PTI

    KOLKATA: Newly appointed West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar Wednesday claimed that the ruling TMC in West Bengal is muzzling the voice of the people in an undemocratic manner.

    He said the people of the state are afraid to air their views openly in the TMC regime.

    Claiming that TMC does not want people to exercise their franchise, the BJP leader said he does not know the reason behind it.

    Majumdar, who was speaking to reporters, said “I will ask everyone to vote (in the coming assembly by-poll) without fear, in a free manner.

    Vote for whoever you like and don’t feel intimidated by any party,” Describing the death of Dhurjati Saha, the BJP candidate for Magrahat Poschim assembly seat at a city hospital on Wednesday as “unfortunate”, Majumdar said “We have information that he was attacked by TMC miscreants on May 2, which was the day of counting of the West Bengal assembly poll and resulted in his death.”

    He said, “This lowers the heads of the people of Bengal. A candidate had been attacked in Didi’s Bengal. This shows how opposition BJP activists and leaders are being attacked since the day of counting of the state assembly poll,” he said.

    On allegations of graft against TMC leaders in the smuggling of coal and sand and in distribution of relief after Cyclone Amphan, Majumdar said “TMC leaders are steeped in corruption everywhere, even in villages. They are demanding cut money for every project.”

    The Enforcement Directorate is sending “invitation letters” to some TMC leaders, the BJP leader said referring to summons to TMC heavyweights by the central agency in recent times but did not elaborate.

    On TMC MP Sougata Roy holding the Narendra Modi government responsible for skyrocketing fuel price, Majumdar said he should ask his party supremo (Banerjee) to bring petrol and diesel under GST.

    “If petrol and diesel are brought under GST, I am sure the price will be below Rs 70 for every litre.

    Why is Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is not issuing a one line statement announcing the same?” he added.

    In a dig at Roy, Majumdar said “An elderly leader like him was seen wading through knee deep water before his residence. It was such a sad sight. He should rather think about the ways to contain waterlogging.”

    To another question about the agitation by applicants to contractual teacher posts, he said that there has been largescale corruption in recruitment of teachers in Bengal.

  • Abhishek Banerjee should go on nationwide Yatra to learn how to behave with Opposition: Bengal BJP chief

    By ANI

    KOLKATA: Taking a dig at Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee over his Padyatra in Tripura, newly-appointed president of West Bengal BJP Sukanta Majumdar on Tuesday said Banerjee needs to walk across the country to learn how to behave with the Opposition.

    TMC is looking to expand its footprint in the northeast and in line with this the party had planned a padyatra led by Abhishek Bannerjee in Tripura. However, the Padytra has not been held so far as permission has not been given by the administration.

    When asked about Abhishek Banerjee’s Padyatra, Majumdar said, “Abhishek Banerjee must go on a yatra across the country so that he can learn how to behave with the Opposition.”

    Briefing media persons, Majumdar said, “From 3 to 77 is itself a huge success in Bengal. However, there might be something missing in the strategy that we could not win the elections. Some of the seats we lost by a very small margin.”

    Former West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh said the party has taken a far-sighted decision by giving responsibility to Sukanta Majumdar.

    Speaking to media persons, Ghosh said, “I have more experience so the party has given me a bigger responsibility. I held a meeting with the party national president after the polls and told him about my duties. My mission is now half complete.”

    “When we started five years ago, things in Bengal were different. No one even uttered BJP’s name. Now it has become the main opposition party. Our power is equal to TMC. I think the party has taken a far-sighted decision by giving such responsibility to Sukanta babu,” he added.

    BJP national President, Jagat Prakash Nadda on Monday appointed Dr Sukanta Majumdar as the State party president for the West Bengal unit. 

  • BJP will end culture of post-poll violence in West Bengal, says new-state party chief Sukanta Majumdar

    By ANI

    KOLKATA: Newly-appointed President of West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Sukanta Majumdar on Tuesday assured that the party would end the culture of the post-poll violence in the state. He also assured justice to people killed in the violence that followed the Assembly polls.

    “Post-Poll violence was not a part of West Bengal’s culture, it has come from outside. We will get justice for the people killed in the post-poll violence. The BJP workers who were beaten up by the TMC goondas, I won’t say TMC workers. I have faith in the Indian judiciary that it will give them justice,” he said.

    “Violence has now become a part of the political culture of the state. Only BJP can end this. There is no violence in other states,” Majumdar added.

    Commenting on the upcoming bypolls for three assembly constituencies in Bhabanipur, Samserganj and Jangipur in West Bengal, and assured, “We will work as a team. We will perform better in upcoming elections, including panchayat, municipalities and Lok Sabha”.

    In August, Calcutta High Court ordered a court-monitored CBI probe into the incidents of post-poll violence in the state.

    The High Court also ordered to set up Special Investigation Teams (SIT) for investigation and senior officers from West Bengal cadre will be a part of the team and directed the state government to take immediate steps for compensation for the victims of post-poll violence.

    Soon after the results of assembly polls in Bengal on May 2 were declared, violent incidents were reported after supporters of TMC and BJP allegedly clashed in various parts of the state since May 2, killing many people and triggering an alleged exodus.

    A four-member team deputed by the Ministry of Home Affairs had also visited the post-poll violence-affected areas.

  • Sukanta Majumdar replaces Dilip Ghosh as West Bengal BJP chief

    By PTI

    NEW DELHI: The BJP on Monday replaced its West Bengal unit president Dilip Ghosh with Sukanta Majumdar, Lok Sabha MP from Balurghat in the state.

    Ghosh, also a Lok Sabha MP, has been made a national vice president of the party.

    In a statement, the party also announced the appointment of former Uttarakhand governor Baby Rani Maurya as its vice president.

    Maurya is a Dalit leader and is expected to play a role in the assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, her native state.

    The decision to bring in a new West Bengal president is being seen as part of the BJP’s efforts to reinvigorate its organisation in the state amid desertions by a number of its leaders who have switched over to the ruling Trinamool Congress.