Attack on ex-MLA Debabrata Majumder’s house
We were in office for 15 years, and nothing like this was ever reported,” Ghosh said.
No local BJP worker could have done such a thing there,” Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said, before alleging, “Some people are carrying out attacks while pretending to be BJP members, trying to tarnish our image. Senior police officers said that a probe into complaints filed was underway. “This is nothing short of lawlessness. Ex-TMC councillors, MLA and MMiC members were targeted creating havoc… Our former councilor Vasundhara Goswami has informed us how local thugs are vandalising our homes and party offices. Are we living under jungle rule? Even when the police are called, they do not come. We can clearly identify those who attacked our office yet no one is being arrested. We have learned that CPM workers were also attacked. Our neta Mamatadi had long ago warned about the fascist nature of BJP, and identified them as the real enemy. We must protest this together. Dismissing allegations of his party’s involvement, BJP seniors rejected any link to the violence, attributing the clashes instead to factional infighting within Trinamool Congress. “BJP has no involvement. Debabrata Majumdar was once with our party, but later joined Trinamool. His father had been connected with us since the founding days. It is simply not possible that someone from our party would go and vandalise Keshab Majumdar’s (his father’s) house. His elder brother is also associated with us. So no one would dare touch that house. In that family, Debabrata is irrelevant; that house carries the memory and presence of his father. Damaging party offices or martyr memorials is not part of BJP’s culture.