In rallies in West Bengal, Yogi attacks Trinamool, calls it ‘soft on terrorism’
The Hindu
BJP refrains from attacking Congress MP in Baharampur Lok Sabha seat campaign in West Bengal.
As campaigning picked up for Baharampur Lok Sabha seat in the heart of West Bengal, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders refrained from making any direct attack on the sitting Congress MP and West Bengal Congress president Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury.
Over the past three days, two key leaders of BJP — party president J.P. Nadda and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath — held rallies in the constituency but did not speak of the Congress MP.
Addressing an election rally at Baharampur, Mr. Adityanath raised the issue of violence during the Ram Navami procession on April 17. “Had such incidents taken place in Uttar Pradesh, I would have taught the perpetrators such a lesson that their next seven generations would not have dared to even think of doing any such thing,” he said.
He also alleged that there was a demographic change across several constituencies of West Bengal, targeting the Trinamool Congress government over it.
On Sunday, while addressing an election meeting at Baharampur, Mr. Nadda alleged that the Mamata Banerjee government was a “terrorist sympathiser” and wanted a Central government that was “soft on terrorism”.
Murshidabad, according to the 2011 census, has about 66% Muslim population; it has three Lok Sabha seats — Jangipur, Murshidabad and Baharampur. Mr. Chowdhury, who has defended Baharmpore five times, is facing one of the biggest electoral challenges of his career. “They will target me only if there are any allegations,” he said of the BJP and its backstep.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Mr. Chowdhury won the seat with a margin of over 80,000 votes. In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, he managed a victory by margin of over 3.5 lakh votes.
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