BJP launches ‘Save Bengal’ campaign from Rajghat
Stepping up pressure on Mamata Banerjee, the BJP launched its Save Bengal campaign on Thursday by holding a protest demonstration near Rajghat (Mahatma Gandhi’s memorial) against the alleged repression of majoritarian community in communally affected 24 North Parganas district of West Bengal.
“This is not an isolated demonstration. The BJP would protest across the nation to expose the communal TMC regime. Our goal is to defeat the Jihadi anarchists who have subjugated democracy in West Bengal,” said Union Minister Smriti Irani.
To make the protest count, the BJP fielded several of its leaders, including general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, union ministers Smriti Irani, Dr Harshvardhan, Babul Supriyo, SS Ahluwalia, and MPs Mahesh Giri, Meenakshi Lekhi, and Pravesh Verma.
“We want to tell the West Bengal government that BJP workers would not be cowed down by such vendetta politics. Whenever any political party has targeted our workers in any part of the nation, entire BJP stands has backed him in solidarity,” Irani said.
Reacting sharply to the arrest of BJP IT Cell head, Tarun Sengupta by West Bengal Police, Irani accused Trinamool Congress for deliberately targeting its cadres on ‘false charges’.
Sengupta was arrested on Wednesday on charges of posting a fake image of Hindu men and …read more
