The upcoming yatra, Mr Ghosh maintained, will boost the prime minister’s ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’.
BJP National Working President J.P. Nadda with party National General Secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya and West Bengal party President Dilip Ghosh during 'Jan Jagran' programme on Article 370 in Kolkata, on Sep 27, 2019. (Photo: Kuntal Chakrabarty/IANS)
The state BJP today threatened to launch a statewide movement if the “politics of annihilation” of Opposition party workers does not stop in the state. Addressing a Press conference at the state BJP headquarters in Kolkata, BJP’s state president and MP Dilip Ghosh said that BJP will soon take out multiple rallies to protest the murder of democracy in the state. He accused chief minister Mamata Banerjee of failing in her duty as an administrator.
The BJP leadership will also be taking out rallies across the state from October 15 to 26, as part of the party’s nationwide ‘Gandhi Sankalp Yatra’ initiative to propagate the ideals of the Father of the Nation. Mr Ghosh said party MPs, MLAs and panchayat pradhans will take part in the rallies, each of which will be preceded by a tableau projecting Mahatma Gandhi’s contributions.
“The yatra was launched on October 2 elsewhere in the country, on the occasion of Gandhiji’s 150th birth anniversary. We had to postpone the date in view of the ongoing festive season in West Bengal,” he said. “The rallies will together cover a distance of 6,500 km in the state over a period of 10 days,” the BJP state president stated, adding the state administration would be informed about the yatra and its routes in advance.
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Asked if the party was anticipating any restriction by the administration, Mr Ghosh said, “This yatra is being taken out by the BJP to preach Gandhi’s ideals of non-violence and cleanliness to the present generation. I think the ruling dispensation will not be opposed to the initiative. However, if there is any such development we will act accordingly.” The state government had last year slammed brakes on the saffron party’s rath yatra, citing possible breakdown in law and order.
The upcoming yatra, Mr Ghosh maintained, will boost the prime minister’s ‘Swachh Bharat Mission’. “Only yesterday, we organised a sit-in in the city against the spiralling political violence and the triple murder in Murshidabad’s Jiaganj,” the BJP party chief added.
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