In view of the post-poll violence in West Bengal, BJP is on its way to drum up public opinion against the TMC and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee at the national level. The BJP state leadership has been instructed to hold regular meetings with its leaders in other states of the country to report allegations of attacks on BJP workers in Bengal.
In the next Lok Sabha elections, the anti-Narendra Modi ‘face’ has recently started campaigning on the net for Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. The BJP aims to counter Mamata’s voice in that atmosphere. According to sources, the BJP has pressed into service leaders such as state president Dilip Ghosh, Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari, Kailash Vijayvargiya, and Bhupendra Yadav.
The BJP has alleged that its workers in the districts have been affected since the results were announced. In many places, workers are being evicted and allowed to return home in exchange for fines. According to the Gerua camp, BJP’s all-India president J.P Nadda first came to Bengal to stand by the state workers. The BJP also staged some protests after that.
The BJP has been telling workers across the country about the ‘attacks’ party cadres are suffering in West Bengal. National BJP general secretary Bhupender Yadav addressed Assam party workers on Tuesday through video conference.
Last week, BJP national general secretary and West Bengal in-charge Kailash Vijayvargiya conducted a meeting with workers from Uttarakhand. The workers from the hill state will now visit West Bengal.
“Many workers were left to fend for themselves. This has only created anger among a group of workers and the central leadership felt it had to be addressed immediately,” said a party functionary.
Virtual meetings have already been held with leaders of 13 states and one union territory. State President Dilip has met BJP leaders in Uttar Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Manipur and Andaman, and Nicobar. Opposition leader Shuvendu has joined hands with Gujarat and Meghalaya. BJP will make a poster. The main statement of the party in the poster has been written in the form of the question ‘Bangla is burning, is violence the solution?’
Most meetings with party leaders in the states so far have been held by the BJP. Apart from this, there are states like Chhattisgarh, Punjab, and Rajasthan where the BJP is in the role of the opposition party. However, the BJP has organisational strength in all the states. Gerua Shibir wants publicity in all these states for Bengal. And from this publicity, the claim that misgovernance is going on in Bengal gets national-level limelight in the coming days.