‘Will be compelled to remove them’: BJP warns workers over post-poll violence | India News
New Delhi: A day after the Bharatiya Janata Party’s historic victory in the West Bengal Assembly elections, state party president Samik Bhattacharya on Tuesday urged the administration to take strict action against those involved in post-poll violence.Speaking to reporters, Bhattacharya warned that BJP workers involved in such activities would be expelled from the party.“Post-election violence will not be tolerated in any way. If anyone from our party is involved, we will be forced to remove them,” he said.“I would like to request the administration to take necessary action wherever such incidents occur. This is exactly why the people of West Bengal have chosen the BJP,” he said.He also accused TMC workers of attacking their own candidates.“Two hours after the results, a TMC candidate called Dilip Ghosh to save him. Dilip Ghosh asked him about his whereabouts, on which he said he was in the party office. He told the candidate that those people were with him during the election,” he said.“The candidate said they are TMC people but now they are coming to beat him. This is bound to happen. TMC was not a political party,” he added.Meanwhile, news agency PTI reported that a high-level meeting was held at the BJP’s Bidhannagar office, attended by central observers and senior state leaders, to discuss measures to prevent violence and maintain law and order in the post-result situation.The talks also focused on ensuring there is no repeat of violence reported after the 2021 assembly elections, when the BJP accused the ruling Trinamool Congress of targeting its workers.The BJP bagged 207 of the 293 seats that went to polls, securing a two-thirds majority and paving the way to form its first government in West Bengal. Trinamool Congress won 80 seats.
