Suvendu Adhikari to skip Bengal governor's visit to Nandigram

KOLKATA: BJP legislative wing leader Suvendu Adhikari will not accompany the Bengal governor when he visits Nandigram on Saturday to meet the families of victims of post-poll violence.
“No BJP leader is going to accompany him. The governor will be discharging his constitutional duty. We have already submitted what we have gathered over all these days. Our party activist Debabrata Maity from Nandigram died in a Kolkata hospital on Friday.Reports of deaths are coming in from Birbhum also,” Adhikari said.
BJP MP Nisith Pramanik had accompanied governor Jagdeep Dhankhar to violence-hit areas in Cooch Behar’s Sitalkuchi and also the Ranpagli camp in Assam’s Dhubri district where Assam has set up a camp for Cooch Behar victims who had to leave their homes after poll results were declared on May 2.
Adhikari alleged violence was continuing in three Nandigram villages. “Some of them voted for the ruling party. Yet, they were tortured,” he said.
Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh alleged that police stations were not taking torture complaints. “Instead, police are slapping cases on the complainants. Crucial identity documents like Aadhaar and voter IDs are being snatched from them. Many people in West Midnapore, East Midnapore and Burdwan’s Katwa have fled their homes,” he said.