BJP's Suvendu Adhikari stopped from entering Raj Bhavan along with victims of post-poll violence
West Bengal's Leader of Opposition and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, was stopped by the police on Thursday from entering the Raj Bhavan to meet West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose with alleged victims of post-poll violence.
ANI
Jun 13, 2024 22:09 IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], June 13 (ANI): West Bengal's Leader of Opposition and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari, was stopped by the police on Thursday from entering the Raj Bhavan to meet West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose with alleged victims of post-poll violence.
Speaking to ANI about the incident, Adhikari said, "For the first time after independence, we have been stopped outside Raj Bhavan. They didn't let the LoP to enter. The Governor called in the victim with written permission. 200 victims accompanied with LoP had come here," he told ANI.
He also alleged that CM Mamata Banerjee's TMC party won in the 2024 Lok Sabha election with Muslim votes and rigging.
"This didn't happen even during the Emergency. She (CM Mamata Banerjee) thinks that since they have won 29 seats, there is no other party in Bengal. But 2.35 lakh voters voted in favour of Lotus (BJP). 39 per cent of the people voted for the BJP. opposition has such power and they want to finish the Opposition. The public is not with them. They won with Muslim votes and rigging," he added.
Earlier this month, West Bengal opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari had written to Governor CV Ananda Bose, raising concerns about the All India Trinamool Congress' alleged role in post-poll violence, urging him to take steps to prevent a recurrence of the situation after elections in 2021.
In the letter to the Governor of West Bengal, BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari said that after the 2024 Parliamentary General Election results were announced on June 4, "goons of the ruling dispensation" has gone "berserk upon the workers of BJP" in West Bengal.
"As has become synonymous now with the State of West Bengal, the goons of the ruling dispensation has gone berserk upon the workers of BJP after the declaration of results of the Parliamentary General Elections, 2024, which was announced on June 4, 2024," Adhikari said in the letter.
"This seems to be a repeat of the incidents which had transpired after the declaration of the results of the 2021 assembly election results in Bengal, which had resulted in the death of several BJP karyakartas," he added. (ANI)
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