Kolkata: Off the Jadavpur University campus, Trinamool Congress, BJP and CPM attacked each other on Sunday on the JU issue.
Bengal BJP, which on Sunday organised a rally from Prince Anwar Shah Road to protest against "violence and lawlessness at the educational institutions", claimed that the Trinamool and CPM are in collusion to gain political mileage from the Jadavpur University incident. "The attack on education minister Bratya Basu was fabricated. The irrelevant ‘tukde tukde' gang has now come to light for a while," leader of the opposition Suvendu Adhikari said. BJP has called a citizen convention on March 16 against the JU incident.
Trinamool, on the other hand, took a dig at the rally, alleging that BJP party workers from Nandigram had to be called in to make the rally successful. "They do not even have the capacity to organise a rally with local workers. When they attack us, they conveniently forget the 2019 attack on Babul Supriyo in JU when he was with BJP and a Union minister. Was it then due to BJP-CPM collusion? They have to make these noises. Workers from one faction are ready to sabotage the other. This is the reality of the BJP in the state," Trinamool spokesperson Kunal Ghosh said.
CPM leaders were part of citizen forum protests in which they directed their attacks on state education minister.