A day after taking charge as the West Bengal BJP president, Sukanta Majumdar on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, accusing her of running a 'Taliban government' in the state.
"Can anyone believe that a person has been hacked to death on open road after the election only because he is a supporter of another party? Is this democracy? There were elections in four states but apart from Bengal no person died in any other state. Only in this state so many people lost their lives!,” Majumdar said, reported IANS.
Speaking at a felicitation programme at BJP's Kolkata office, Majumdar, an MP from Balurghat, said the chief minister's family owns 35 plots of land even though she is portrayed as the symbol of honesty.
"There is one person who has allegedly been involved in multi-crore coal scam and the money has been transferred to his wife's account,” he said in an apparent reference to the chief minister's nephew, Abhishek Banerjee. Majumdar said though Abhishek and his wife had been summoned by the Enforcement Directorate, they were not cooperating with the agency, but was filing police complaints against the ED officials.
Speaking on the exodus from the party, Majumdar admitted that the BJP was going through a difficult time in the state. “But I know that we will surely come out of it and free the state from the clutches of Mamata Banerjee and her family," he said.
Majumdar replaced Dilip Ghosh as BJP's West Bengal unit president amid infighting and a string of defections from the party to the Trinamool Congress.
"Those who are thinking that they can harm the party by deserting it are wrong. The BJP would emerge victorious in days to come. Those who are committed to the ideology and cause can never leave the party," he said.
The change of guard happened 15 months ahead of the expiry of Ghosh's term as state BJP chief.
