Dilip Ghosh said the law and order situation in Bengal is getting worse by the day.
Kharagpur:
West Bengal BJP Chairman Dilip Ghosh said on Monday that the law and order situation in the state is worsening and it is gradually becoming a mafia-ruled state like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar.
In response, the Trinamool Congress said it was good for it to accept that the Mafia-raj exists in those two states where the BJP is in power.
“West Bengal is slipping into a mafia-raj type situation like in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. The way an adviser was shot dead outside a police station using a stengun is shameful,” Ghosh said speaking to the media on the assassination of BJP leader Manish Shukla in Titagarg in the North 24 Parganas district.
Manish Shukla, a councilor in the municipality of Titagarh, was shot dead on Sunday by two bicycle attackers.
“The public order situation in Bengal is getting worse by the day. The police are hand in hand in the plot to kill a mass leader like Shukla,” Ghosh said.
Mr Ghosh questioned whether free and fair polls would be possible in the state if such an anarchic situation continued.
The state assembly election is due next year.
“More than 120 BJP workers have been killed in the state in recent years,” he said.
TMC management mocked Mr. Ghosh for his comments.
“It is good that he accepted that the raj mafia exists in the UP and Bihar ruled by the BJP. We are happy that at least for once he has told the truth,” said the head of the TMC and Minister Firhad Hakim.
