Goons will get 'UP treatment' of encounters: West Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar
Times of India | 3 June 2024
KOLKATA: Bengal BJP president Sukanta Majumdar on Sunday warned goons in the state of the "Uttar Pradesh treatment" and "encounters" once the party was in office, prompting Trinamool to question whether BJP endorsed "extra-judicial killings" and respected the Constitution.
Responding to post-poll attacks on BJP workers, including the murder of a party activist in Nadia, Majumdar said: "I am warning goons that once in office, BJP will not spare them.We will give them UP treatment and go for encounters."
"Post-poll violence has started in Bengal and our workers are being attacked. This is typical of Trinamool's strong-arm tactics. They will not be spared even if they become a member of BJP and hold a BJP flag to save themselves," he added.
Trinamool's Kunal Ghosh said BJP had taken a "fascist" route with no regard for law and order. "If there is a complaint, the police will look into it. There is a judiciary to ascertain whether someone has committed a crime or not. How can Majumdar speak of encounters? It clearly shows BJP has complete disregard for the administration and the Constitution," Ghosh said.
Trinamool spokesperson Jay Prakash Majumdar said: "BJP brass do not believe in the rule of law, they believe in terrorism. They want to import the politics of guns and make Bengal restive."
Former BJP state president Dilip Ghosh had made a similar comment in 2018. "Every bullet will be made to count," he had said, adding: "Netas who indulge in hooliganism in Bengal will soon either be in jail or there will be an encounter straight away."
The "UP model" had also been brought up last year, when former judge Abhijit Ganguly - now a BJP candidate - while hearing an appeal in Calcutta High Court, had remarked that bulldozers from Yogi Adityanath's state should be brought to raze an illegal building.