Suman Bhattacharyya
The political violence in West Bengal has crossed all the levels. On Sunday, September 13, 2020, a body of yet another BJP worker was found hanging on a tree in Goghat in Hoogly district of the State
Ganesh Roy was a BJP activist from Khanati village in the Goghat area of Hooghly district in West Bengal. He was missing from Saturday evening, and on Sunday, his body was discovered hanging from a tree near his village. The police said that the circumstances behind his death were being investigated. BJP workers blocked the Goghat-Arambagh Road for some time. The police dispersed them soon.
The BJP alleged that he was murdered by goons of the Trinamul Congress. Dilip Ghosh, BJP President for the State of West Bengal, claimed that Ganesh Roy was murdered by the TMC after which his body was hanged from the tree. This was done, Ghosh claimed, to create a visual impact of the consequences one might encounter if he chose to become a BJP worker. It has become a new, politically violent trend to hang BJP workers to death. Dilip Ghosh also said the Party would organize a tough resistance to the terror unleashed on BJP workers and that the TMC, panicked due to the growing support BJP has gathered in recent times, has resorted to such violent measures.
The TMC has strongly denied its involvement in the death of Ganesh Roy. The incident has been tried to be portrayed as suicide.
Locket Chatterjee, BJP MP from Hooghly, protested strongly against such ghastly action taken by the TMC against BJP workers in the State. Questioning the self-proclaimed ‘champions of democracy’ (TMC), Locket asked why the TMC was silent on the killing of the BJP workers in West Bengal.
Incidentally, one may be reminded that a BJP booth president’s body was similarly found hanging in Haldia in East Midnapore district. The body of Debendra Nath Ray, BJP leader and MLA from Hemtabad, was also found hanging near his home in North Dinajpur district.
Over the last few years, bodies of several BJP workers have been found hanging across the State. Although the ruling TMC has tried to pose all of them as incidents of suicide, they appear to be “cold-blooded murder” to silence the rising voice of BJP in West Bengal.
