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Tripura BJP’s fake claim of 125 BJP workers killed in Bengal after Poll : Reality is '11 Died in Clashes ! 6 were BJP and 5 TMC among the deceased'
TIWN Nov 24, 2021
Tripura BJP’s fake claim of 125 BJP workers killed in Bengal after Poll : Reality is '11 Died in Clashes ! 6 were BJP and 5 TMC among the deceased'
PHOTO : A police patrol on the polling day during the assembly by-election at Bhatpara in West Bengal on Sunday.(ANI)

AGARTALA, Nov 24 (TIWN): Tripura BJP continues fake news factory amid West Bengal voters are continuing to reject the party in all local body polls. Addressing a press meet Tripura BJP spokesperson Subarata Chakraborty who himself has been accused of molesting Ramesh School’s class-9 student said ‘125 BJP workers murdered in Bengal, many were raped and lakhs were attacked’.The reality is ‘6 BJP and 5 TMC workers died in Post Poll Violence and Law and Order was in Election Commission’s hands at that time.Six BJP workers were killed during attacks by workers of the ruling Trinamool Congress. The governor summoned the Director of General Police and Kolkata Police Commissioner to discuss the situation. By 4 May around 11 opposition party workers were killed by ruling party goons. The CPI (M) and Congress alleged their workers had also been attacked by the TMC. By 5 May, five supporters of the TMC were killed in post-poll violence.

The Union Ministry of Home Affairs sought a report from the Government of West Bengal over incidents of post-election brutality against opposition political workers in the state.

Udayan Guha, TMC candidate from Dinhata and former Dinhata MLA was attacked by miscreants in Dinhata on 6 May. Guha suffered a hand fracture and other injuries. TMC blamed BJP for this attack. An FIR was lodged against 15 men and among them 4 were arrested by 10 May. Nearly one month after undergoing surgery, Guha returned to Dinhata from Kolkata. He questioned the role of the police, as those accused in the attack on him were still elusive.

BJP leaders Mithun Chakraborty, Dilip Ghosh, Sayantan Basu, and Rahul Sinha made provocative remarks while Model Code of Conduct was in force, which created grounds for violence.[10] After the election, Kolkata Police lodged FIR against Dilip Ghosh and Mithun Chakraborty for promoting enmity.[15] Kolkata Police also registered a case against vocal BJP supporter and Bollywood actress Kangana Ranaut for allegedly instigating communal disharmony by comparing Mamata Banerjee with Ravana and falsely stating that the post-poll violence in the state had become a communial riot because Muslim cadres of TMC were selectively targeting Hindu cadres of BJP. On his 71st birthday, Mithun was grilled by Kolkata Police over his 'violent' line "Maarbo ekhane, laash porbe shoshane"  will beat you here and your corpse will fall directly at the shmashana) during elections.

On 5 May, after taking oath as the Chief Minister for a third term, Mamata Banerjee reinstated state police officers who were transferred by the Election Commission.[19][20] On 10 May, a five-judge special bench of Calcutta High Court expressed satisfaction over the action taken by the newly formed Mamata Banerjee government in Bengal to restore normality after post-results violence in pockets of the state.

Many women, including a minor girl, were allegedly raped by TMC workers as their family members voted against them. Allegedly, a 60-year-old woman was raped and her daughter-in-law was beaten up by TMC goons; their account moved to Supreme court.

In some areas TMC leaders and workers came to the rescue of BJP workers.

The BJP leadership of East Burdwan had submitted a list to the police demanding the return of refugee workers of their party. According to police sources, most of the people mentioned in the lists, provided by the BJP in each police station in the district, have been sent back to their home. DSP (Headquarters) Souvik Patra said "There are many on the list who have gone out (of the state) for work. They works all year in the outlying states. They have also been included in this list. It is being represented as if they are not able to return home." Aminul Islam Khan, SDPO of South Burdwan (Sadar), said "Those who do not want to return home are also being put on the list of refugee people."[36]

BJP members had also brought an elderly man, who had gone to attend his grandson's initiation ceremony, to the National Human Rights Commission in Kolkata.

BJP alleged that their workers had been tortured by TMC activists of Bhagabanpur constituency in Purba Medinipur. But it was later learned that in reality TMC supporters were oppressed by BJP workers under the influence of Rabindranath Maity, BJP MLA of the said constituency. A huge crowd attended TMC's rally in Bhagabanpur on 10 July to protest against BJP's reign of terror

Frances Haugen, a former Facebook employee, revealed before the United States Senate that RSS users, groups and pages had used Facebook to spread violence and communal unrest across West Bengal by promoting anti-Muslim narratives on the platform.

In an organisational meeting of the BJP, two factions of the party clashed with each other in the presence of Dilip Ghosh and Sukanta Majumdar. The protesters alleged that the state BJP leadership did not come to their rescue when they were assaulted by TMC workers in post-poll violence.

In Tripura many CPI-M workers were killed in last 43 months, remained without arrests.

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