Bengal BJP to observe ‘black day’ today: Dilip

Kolkata: Bengal BJP will observe a “black day” on Tuesday when Trinamool chief Mamata Banerjee addresses a virtual rally in memory of the martyrs of July 21, 1993.
BJP organisers across the state will wear black badges, wave black flags and hold agitations in the city to expose Banerjee’s “double standards”, Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh said on Monday.
“Mamata Banerjee has lost the moral right to hold Sahid Divas.She began the rally in memory of Yuva Congress supporters killed in police firing at Esplanade during the Left regime. Mamata fought for the opposition then. The opposition in Bengal has come under tremendous repression during her regime,” Ghosh said.
Ghosh pointed to the recent “killings” in the run-up to Trinamool’s Sahid Divas. “BJP’s Hemtabad MLA was killed and his body hanged last week. BJP’s Bapi Ghosh was killed in Nadia two days after that. BJP Yuva worker from Paschim Medinipur’s Dantan was killed. And worse, a 16-year-old girl in Uttar Dinajpur’s Chopra was gang-raped and murdered. In all cases, police called them suicides or some other things but murder,” he said, demanding the right to life of opposition workers.
The BJP leader also trashed the post-mortem reports and said: “These are all doctored.”
Ghosh released a list of 93 BJP workers killed since 2013. “We have submitted the list to the West Bengal governor and President of India. We have kept out names whose families were under pressure from the ruling party to say that the victim was not a BJP worker. Dilwar, the man killed in Birbhum during the 2018 panchayat polls, is a case in point,” he said.
Calling the Tuesday rally a “cut-paste” of BJP’s virtual rallies, Ghosh said: “Mamata Banerjee had taken a dig at BJP saying the party has spent crores to organise them. But I believe this is the best mode to address the public during the pandemic.”