West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh.State BJP president Dilip Ghosh on Saturday accused police of lodging “false” cases against his party workers and threatened to “strip them of their uniforms”.
Addressing BJP workers at Rampurhat in Birbhum district, Ghosh said, “You have been registering false cases against our workers. A day will come when we will strip of your uniforms. We are noting everything down. We are also calculating the money which has been spent to fight such cases in courts. Once we come to power here we will find out all those officers who slapped false cases against us. They will have to pay us back from their own pockets”.
The party was scheduled to take out its rath yatra from Birbhum. However, only a public meeting was held after a division bench of Calcutta High Court had stayed a single-judge bench order allowing the party to hold the yatra.
BJP’s long-standing grouse with Bengal police
During the meeting, Ghosh also launched a scathing attack on the state government for stalling its rath yatra.
“There is no democracy in West Bengal. The Opposition do not have the freedom to organise public meetings and rallies. The administration does not provide permission for such activities. We decided to take out Ganatantra Bachao Yatra to raise these issues but the state government made efforts day and night to stall it. The state government even brought lawyers from Delhi to stop our rath yatra in court. They are scared to see the rise of BJP. That’s why they are devising strategies to silence our voice,” he said.
Targeting TMC’s Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal, the BJP leader said, “Whenever I come to Birbhum, big cut-outs of a fat person (Mondal) greet us. He is a very popular leader here and makes big statements. However, we will show him what BJP is capable of if our workers are attacked by his party workers,” he added.
Reacting to Ghosh’s remarks, Mondal said, “He is mentally unstable and that’s why speaking in such a language. We don’t give much importance to what he says. If he has guts then he should dare challenge our workers here.”
