Kolkata: Bengal Bhartiya Janta Party leader Suvendu Adhikari has alleged TMC of killing the party’s youth wing leader Mithun Ghosh who was shot dead by assailants in Itahar of Uttar Dinajpur.
“BJYM VP Uttar Dinajpur dist. Mithun Ghosh has been shot dead by assailants at Itahar. This is TMC’s handiwork written all over it. The bloodthirsty antisocial hound dogs who executed their master’s orders would be taken to task when the tide turns,” Suvendu Adhikari tweeted.
Suvendu Adhikari also said, “We won’t forget Mithun Ghosh.”
Trinamool Congress has recently won the electios in Bhabanipur, polling 58,835 votes more than the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Priyanka Tibrewal, a landslide victory that came months after the 66-year-old leader lost the Nandigram seat in the assembly election.
The TMC won in all eight civic wards in the constituency, where a large section of the voters – 46% — is non-Bengali. Of this, the biggest section is formed by Hindus and Sikhs. Bengali and Hindi-speaking Muslims make up for around 20% of the constituency’s voters.
Banerjee, who often refers to the regions as a “mini-India”, said: “There are people from Punjab, Odisha, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. For the first time, we have won in all the wards because of their support. I remember falling behind in two wards in the 2016 polls. I am thankful to all these people. The nation was watching this election alongside Bengal.”
While campaigning for the bypoll, Banerjee even coined the slogan “B for Bhawanipore, B for Bharat”.
“The support from non-Bengali voters played a key role,” transport minister Firhad Hakim said after the results were announced.
Banerjee took oath as the chief minister on May 5 and it was necessary for the TMC leader to get elected within six months to retain the post.
In the March-April polls, TMC’s Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay had won against BJP’s Rudranil Ghosh by a margin of 28,719 votes. Chattopadhyay was, however, asked to step down from the seat so Banerjee could contest from her old constituency.
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