Dilip Ghosh said that 120 BJP workers had “sacrificed their lives” in West Bengal.
New Delhi:
Defiant Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh on Friday doubled down on his open tit-for-tat threat, saying that anyone who attacks him or his party workers will encounter violence even from the central forces dispatched for the elections of next year’s assembly.
“They will target my car, they will break the arms and legs of my workers, they will lynch them, should we serve them tea? We have no document to say that we will stand up and they will beat us,” Ghosh told NDTV in a statement. interview.
“We are not speaking from an air-conditioned room. We are fighting on the floor. 120 workers have sacrificed their lives,” he said.
When asked if the BJP supported violence, he said: “I never said that the BJP would hit anyone. I said that the central forces that come here will hit anyone who creates trouble.”
Addressing the Trinamool Congress government in West Bengal, led by Mamata Banerjee, he said: “Ask the government why there are bomb explosions every day. Why do they murder political workers? Has even one person been punished?” .
Earlier this month, Ghosh had issued a controversial warning to Banerjee supporters, saying they should make amends or risk having their arms and legs broken and they may even be killed.
“Didi’s siblings who are creating problems must change their habits in the next six months or else they will break your arms, legs, ribs and head. You will have to go to the hospital. And if you do more than that, then he will have to go to the crematorium, “Ghosh told a rally in Haldia.
The Trinamool Congress headed by Mamata Banerjee, popularly known as Didi, and the BJP have fostered a bitter rivalry in West Bengal, which will hold elections for the assembly next year. Both sides have accused each other of political violence and attacks on the other side’s supporters.
Dilip Ghosh’s comments come amid increased political activity in Bengal ahead of elections in which Union Interior Minister Amit Shah has set an ambitious goal of winning 200 of the state’s 294 seats.
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