After visiting Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi on Wednesday, Bharatiya Janata Party leader Suvendu Adhikari said that infiltrators from Bangladesh and Rohingyas from Myanmar were involved in post-poll violence in Bengal.
For the second day in a row, he was due to meet with Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
“I told Modi Ji about the atrocities BJP workers are facing in the state. As many as 25 women have been raped. Bangladeshis and Rohingyas are involved in these crimes. Thousands are homeless. At Ausgram (in East Burdwan district) 26 families are hiding in a jungle,” Ghosh, who is the leader of the opposition in the Bengal assembly, told the media in Delhi.
The BJP has long claimed that the Trinamool Congress (TMC) administration provided Rohingya refugees with sanctuary, but the governing party has consistently disputed such assertions.
Adhikari said he will join the state-wide protests launched by Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh following a meeting of state office bearers on Tuesday. “With our petition, we will meet with the President,” Suvendu said.
Adhikari said he personally believes the situation in Bengal is much worse than what is necessary to execute Article 356 after meeting Shah and BJP president JP Nadda on Tuesday, but his party has not taken an official stance on the matter.
If a state government fails to function according to Constitutional provisions, the Union government can take direct control of the state machinery under Article 356 of the Indian Constitution.
When asked about Adhikari’s absence from the office bearers’ meeting, Ghosh stated that he had no idea why Adhikari had been summoned to Delhi.
“There are no differences between us. I am part of the decision taken by Ghosh. We will carry out agitations from June 23,” Adhikari said on Wednesday.
Three BJP Lok Sabha MPs from Bengal, Arjun Singh, Saumitra Khan, and Nisith Pramanik, traveled to Delhi throughout the day to discuss with national officials about the state’s law and order crisis. There is no such thing as the rule of law. Complaints are not being accepted by the police When a man was slain in Jagaddal, North 24 Parganas, on Sunday, several stores in the local market were robbed, but no action was taken, according to Singh, the local MP.
Bengal cabinet minister Firhad Hakim dismissed Adhikari’s claims, saying that Adhikari is attempting to avoid the wrath of BJP leaders. The BJP believed that inducting him would assure its success in the Bengal elections. Adhikari is now attempting to appease the party’s leaders.
Adhikari joined the BJP in December last year and defeated Mamata Banerjee in the recent assembly polls at Nandigram, the seat he held in the East Midnapore district. His father and younger brother are TMC Lok Sabha MPs from the district.
