More than 1000 families forced to leave Bengal amidst violence; Didi meanwhile swears in as State CM

Kolkata, May 05: Amidst the post poll violence in the state of West Bengal, CM Mamata Banerrjee kept her swearing in ceremony a low key affair inviting no other state leaders, no other political party leaders. This is within 24 hours of elections results, at least a dozen of people have been reported dead in post poll violence in the state of West Bengal, a figure that may be higher than the number of those killed during the month-long polls.

 

With this, it is reported that over 1000 Hindu families have been forced to leave their homes and take shelter in the fields in Birbhum district of the State. Former Rajya Sabha MP and the BJP candidate from Tarakeswar, Swapan Dasgupta, had tweeted about the alarming situation in Birbhum on Monday (May 3). The area falls under the Nanoor Vidhan Sabha constituency. “The alarming situation in Nanoor (Birbhum district) with more than a thousand Hindu families out in the fields to escape marauding mobs seeking to take it out against BJP supporters. Reports of molestation or worse of women. Amit Shah, please rush some security to the area,” he wrote.

 

 

His tweet came in the backdrop of reports of rape and mass molestation cases from the Birbhum district of West Bengal. After the results of the Bengal Assembly election were announced on Sunday, the BJP said one of its party offices in Hooghly district was set on fire and some of its leaders, including Suvendu Adhikari, were harassed by TMC activists in other parts of the state. A local BJP leader claimed that TMC workers, shortly after the defeat of their party candidate Sujata Mondal, set on fire the BJP’s Arambagh office. “The TMC, in a bid to avenge the defeat of its candidate, indulged in acts of arson and torched our party office,” the local BJP leader claimed.

 

 

 

Further it is yesterday that the Bengal wing of BJP claimed that at least six of its workers were killed across the state since the assembly results were announced. The BJP has noted that a hundred party offices and houses of BJP workers were ransacked across the state as the counting progressed, and the trends became clearer. In a tweet, BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, the party's in-charge for Bengal, said its four workers were killed and over 4,000 houses ransacked in incidents of post-poll violence.

 

 

In another incident, a BJP worker named Ganesh Ghosh was compelled to flee West Bengal along with his family members after the Trinamool Congress goons wrought havoc at his resort. The miscreants attacked Ghosh’s resort in Shakuntala village in Khoai Haat in Shantinektan. The resort is located just 5 minutes away from the Vishwa Bharati University.

 

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Several images have now surfaced on social media, which capture the extent of the damage done to the BJP worker’s property. Visuals show that the glass panes of windows and doors were broken by the miscreants. They had also damaged the furniture. Broken pieces of glass can also be seen lying scattered on the floor. Fearing a threat to his life, Ganesh Ghosh was left with no option but to leave the state altogether.

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