BJP Ropes in Bengal Post-Poll Violence Victims for Bhowanipore Campaign to Show 'TMC Misrule'
News 18As Bhowanipore bypoll campaign draws to a close, BJP has launched a blitzkrieg on the Mamata-led Trinamool Congress by roping in the victims of violence that ensued after the assembly elections in West Bengal early this year. We will show what happens in Bengal when somebody decides to support the opposition.” Central ministers and BJP stalwarts such as Hardip Singh Puri, Smriti Irani and Manoj Tiwari had campaigned in Bhowanipore to underline how important the bypoll is for the party considering its defeat in the assembly election this year. West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar told News18, “This is not only for Bhowanipore, the condition in this state is pathetic and we want to project that.” Chief minister Banerjee is in a powerful position yet the “misrule is going on.” BJP MP and actor Manoj Tiwari took a dig at the CM’s “Khela Hobe” slogan at the Kolkata airport on Saturday evening and said, “The Khela that is happening here after poll result on opposition is not good and the entire country knows that.” Dismissing BJP jibes, cabinet minister Subrata Mukherjee said, “If we have done so much of violence, which we have not done in its truest sense, they should try to give us punishment in a legal way, politicising this incident will not help the victims as well as BJP. Tibrewal was one of the petitioners and BJP’s counsel in the West Bengal post-poll violence cases in the Calcutta High Court.