The central leadership of the BJP is sending a four-member team headed by former Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad to visit the trouble-torn spots in West Bengal and submit a report to party president Jagat Prakash Nadda.
Party sources said the BJP team would reach West Bengal on Tuesday and visit the spots which had seen the worst violence in the panchayat elections and submit its report by the end of this week.
The other members of the team are Dr Rajdeep Roy, MP from Silchar, Dr. Satyapal Singh, MP, Ex- Commissioner, Mumbai Police, Dr. Rajdeep Roy, MP, and Rekha Verma, MP & National Vice President.
Outlining the task before the team, Convenor Ravi Shankar Prasad said: “Once Bengal was the mother of democracy, the centre of nationalist aspirations. It was the Bengal of Subhash Chandra Bose, it was the Bengal of Rabindranath Tagore, it was the Bengal of Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar. Is it essential that someone needs to die if an election is held?” he asked.
“Earlier in Bihar and many other states, many people used to die during polls. Now due to the increase in strength of the Election Commission, violence has come down. During Lok Sabha elections in Bengal, owing to the strength of the Election Commission, violence is less. But indiscriminate violence and killings are taking place when the State Government is conducting the gram panchayat elections,” he said.
BJP’s IT cell head and co-minder of West Bengal tweeted: “This war-like situation is a grim reminder of how lawless Bengal is under Mamata Banerjee. The struggles of people in WB, for respect and dignity, is real. It is when one faces such barbarity, one realises the true worth of freedom and democracy… #SaveBengal.”