BJP & CPM gear up to give a strong fight to Mamata Banerjee
KOLKATA: Before next year's Panchayat elections in West Bengal, both BJP and CPM are now engaged in a stiff competition as each of them are eager to emerge as principal opposition to Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress.
While BJP's superb electoral performance in UP and Uttarakhand is providing oxygen to the state unit to intensify its struggle against Mamata's government, the CPM is struggling hard to be on the streets as the Marxists are experiencing pathetic electoral performance continuously since 2011.
To emerge as principal opposition to Trinamool Congress, both BJP and CPM have brought some changes in the pattern of their traditional form of agitation against the ruling Trinamool Congress. Both are avoiding bandhs and strikes, but adopted some sort of agitation which has stunned Trinamool Congress.
For example, BJP is resorting to wildcat agitation in front of the state administrative headquarters of Nabanna and near Assembly gates to register their protests against some policies of Mamata government and to raise their political demands.
“We are not getting police permission for holding our rallies. In the past six months, the police had turned down most of our pleas for holding meetings. In some cases, we had to move Kolkata High Court for obtaining police permission. Such things can't go for long and we have now decided to go for wildcat agitation by keeping the police and administration in dark about such movements,“ said BJP state president Dilip Ghosh.
On February 23, about hundred BJP workers held a sudden demonstration near Nabanna and the police had no clue about the agitation.Chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who also looks after Home department, had asked the state police chief to inquire about the incident and sought explanation.
While BJP's superb electoral performance in UP and Uttarakhand is providing oxygen to the state unit to intensify its struggle against Mamata's government, the CPM is struggling hard to be on the streets as the Marxists are experiencing pathetic electoral performance continuously since 2011.
To emerge as principal opposition to Trinamool Congress, both BJP and CPM have brought some changes in the pattern of their traditional form of agitation against the ruling Trinamool Congress. Both are avoiding bandhs and strikes, but adopted some sort of agitation which has stunned Trinamool Congress.
For example, BJP is resorting to wildcat agitation in front of the state administrative headquarters of Nabanna and near Assembly gates to register their protests against some policies of Mamata government and to raise their political demands.
“We are not getting police permission for holding our rallies. In the past six months, the police had turned down most of our pleas for holding meetings. In some cases, we had to move Kolkata High Court for obtaining police permission. Such things can't go for long and we have now decided to go for wildcat agitation by keeping the police and administration in dark about such movements,“ said BJP state president Dilip Ghosh.
On February 23, about hundred BJP workers held a sudden demonstration near Nabanna and the police had no clue about the agitation.Chief minister Mamata Banerjee, who also looks after Home department, had asked the state police chief to inquire about the incident and sought explanation.
