Mamata Banerjee breaks open BJP office, paints party symbol on wall

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West Bengal, Jun 03, 2019 : West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday (May 30) broke open a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) office in Naihati area of North 24 Parganas district and painted her party’s name - All India Trinamool Congress and symbol on the office’s saffron wall. The incident allegedly happened on May 30, Yahoo reported.

 

 

Trinamool Congress has claimed that it was their office which was captured by supporters of the newly elected BJP MP Arjun Singh, who had won from Barrackpore after defeating the TMC candidate, Dinesh Trivedi.

On May 30, when PM Narendra Modi was taking oath for his second term in office, Mamata Banerjee was protesting in Naihati area of North 24 Parganas district.

After addressing the gathering, Mamata Banerjee visited the BJP office that had the BJP symbol and party name painted on it and broke open its door to ’recapture’ it.

The TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee used a painter’s brush to paint in black the All India Trinamool Congress official party symbol (flowers and grass) over the saffron walls of the building


During the same visit, Mamata Banerjee also reprimanded people chanting ’Jai Shri Ram’ slogan near her convoy and had said that those who raised the slogans were "all outsiders and BJP people".

"They are criminals and were abusing me. They are not from Bengal," Mamata Banerjee had said. This prompted the BJP to announce that it will send 10 lakh postcards with "Jai Shri Ram" written on them to her.

Reportedly, many TMC offices at block and village level in the state were painted in the BJP colour (saffron) after the party made inroads into West Bengal by winning 18 of the 42 seats in the state, cutting the TMC down to size by limiting its win to only 22 seats against the 34 it had won in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

Reports also claim that many properties belonging to TMC workers were being converted into the BJP units after the owners of these places switched sides to join the BJP.

On May 28, two TMC MLAs, including Mukul Roy’s son Subhrangshu Roy, along with 63 municipal councillors joined the BJP in Delhi. Along with Subhrangshu and Tushar Kanti Bhattacharya, a CPI(M) MLA Hemtabad Devendra Roy also joined the BJP in the presence of West Bengal BJP in-charge Kailash Vijayvargiya.

Meanwhile, Mamata Banerjee in a blog post on Sunday attacked the BJP stating that some of its workers and supporters were using a section of the media to spread the ideology of hate.

Mamata Banerjee also changed the profile picture of her official Twitter page and Facebook account.