BJP to launch nationwide stir against Mamata in bid to isolate her politically

The BJP is planning to launch an anti-Mamata Banerjee campaign all over the country in an apparent bid to isolate the Bengal Chief Minister in the national politics, party sources say.

According to reports the saffron outfit will agitate against the Trinamool Congress chief in major cities outside Bengal so as to highlight her anti-Dalit face. The party will not only focus on large-scale political violence in the State but also it will draw attention towards the recent murders of two Dalit BJP supporters in Purulia, insiders say.

Though playing Dalit card has hardly worked in Bengal the issue may have significant impact in other States making it difficult for the other opposition parties to share platform with Mamata Banerjee who plans to play a major role in binding the non-BJP forces of the country in the run up to the 2019 general elections insiders say.

It is another matter that the residual opposition parties of Bengal like the CPI(M) and the Congress are seeing in the BJP’s pan-Indian anti-Mamata protests a ploy “to promote the Bengal Chief Minister into something that she is not” so that she stands out as a forceful contender in the opposition camp giving hard challenge to Rahul Gandhi and the Congress --- in assuming the leadership of the so-called secular parties.

“TMC is a nonentity nationally. The BJP is planning to prop Mamata Banerjee to divide the opposition vote, to amplify her stature and create a rift in the opposition ranks,” a Bengal Pradesh Congress Committee leader says adding however that it was still early days to comment on such “vague measures.”

The BJP’s movement is likely to start and end before June 25 when party president Amit Shah’s Bengal tour begins, insiders say adding after Shah’s visit of Bengal the leaders from the State including State president Dilip Ghosh would launch protest dharnas in Delhi against the political violence unleashed by the Trinamool Government.

Meanwhile the local BJP leadership said the party president was likely to visit Purulia during his two-day visit of Bengal. Two BJP Dalit workers were found hanging from a tree and an electric tower under mysterious circumstances soon after the panchayat elections in Balrampur block of Purulia district where the BJP did extremely well nearly displacing the ruling outfit.

The BJP has alleged that the two persons were murdered by the Trinamool Congress workers to avenge their defeat in the rural elections.