Team News Riveting
Kolkata, May 3
Soon after the declaration of Bengal Assembly Election results, establishments related to the saffron camp had reportedly come under the attack of goons.
On day 2, around 15-20 miscreants attacked and vandalised ABVP West Bengal’s Kolkata office. They assaulted the ABVP leaders and workers before ransacking the premises. The miscreants deliberately vandalized the idols of Hindu deities Hanuman Ji and Maa Kali. After dashing the idols of Hindu Gods and Goddesses to smithereens, they vandalized the portraits of thought leaders and national figures like Rabindranath Tagore, Syama Prasad Mukherjee, Subhas Chandra Bose and others.
The ABVP leaders claimed that the TMC activists were behind the incident as they shouted pro-Mamata Banerjee slogans and threatened the ABVP activists and office-bearers with similar assaults in the times to come. “They TMC workers said that Mamata Banerjee’s defeat in Nandigram had made the TMC cadres very resentful of those responsible for her loss and that such ‘traitors’ would not be allowed to live in Bengal for long,” they added.
On Sunday, the day TMC retained power with landslide victory, the BJP office in Arambagh of Hooghly was set on fire. Today, videos went viral depicting shocking visuals of shops of BJP supporters looted and thrashed by the TMC workers.
Nidhi Tripathi, National General Secretary, ABVP, said, “While the office-bearers and activists, who suffered a violent attack by the TMC goons at ABVP office are now safe, the fanatically violent streak adopted by the West Bengal Chief Minister and her party goons is extremely disconcerting and condemnable. In the coming times, we, as the torchbearers of nationalism, must remain alert and stand shoulder to shoulder in the fight to salvage democracy in Bengal. The violent attack on ABVP activists by Mamata Banerjee’s goons is a portent of steep challenges in the long-run and we must prepare for a long and arduous struggle.”
