Team News Riveting
Kolkata, July 2
The ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal is working on a new strategy to take on Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers and its sympathisers.
Soon after the election results that gave Trinamool a thumping victory, the BJP supporters had to run for their lives following a large-scale violence that erupted in the state. The BJP supporters were selectively targeted by the Trinamool supporters. In the violence, over three dozen BJP workers and supporters were killed.
The ruling party supporters are now targeting the livelihood of their opponents. They are ensuring that the BJP supporters strike for a time meal and ensuring that their strategy is executed effectively.
The Trinamool leaders are reportedly forcing the owners and managers of industrial facilities to sack the workers having affiliation and sympathy with the BJP. Besides, the self-employed that include masons, auto-rickshaw drivers, small traders, vendors, marginal farmers and even casual labourers are threatened to stay away from work.
Reports coming from many parts of the state exposed the new challenges that the BJP workers are facing. The financial condition of many BJP workers has turned alarming and have become dependent on their friends, relatives and neighbours. They foresee an uncertain future. Many shop owners who were looted are also facing severe financial crises.
A group of young workers from South 24 Parganas who have taken shelter at a BJP leader’s house in Kolkata. They had narrated the story to the senior party functionary.
One such worker from Banganagar gram panchayat said he was working as an agent for a micro finance company. The Trinamool supporters took away the bike. Without a two-wheeler, he could not work while the instalment of the vehicle he had purchased had been piling up.
Similarly, a BJP worker in Sujapur was bluntly told by his welding shop owner not to come for a job.
These are just a couple of examples, hundreds of such incidents had been reported from the different parts of the state.
