Babul Supriyo, IT minister in the Mamata Banerjee cabinet and BJP MP and former judge of Calcutta High Court Abhijit Gangopadhyay entered into a heated exchange of words against each other on Vidyasagar Setu across river Hooghly on Friday night over alleged blowing of car horn.
Reacting to the current situation in Bangladesh and the anti-India sentiments expressed by some sections of its population, former BJP state president and former MP Dilip Ghosh reacted sharply today.
Firebrand BJP leader Dilip Ghosh today said that chief minister Mamata Banerjee should be actively vocal against torture and attack on the minorities in Bangladesh.
BJP leader Dilip Ghosh ridiculed the Mamata Banerjee government today in matters linked to the state's bid to dissociate from DVC.
Governor C V Ananda Bose headed for New Delhi on Thursday evening, hours after a meeting with the BJP’s present and former state presidents in West Bengal Sukanta Majumdar and Dilip Ghosh respectively.
“People through national media know that TMC is an anarchist party could kill anybody if he or she raises any anti-TMC issue. Even the party-backed miscreants did not hesitate to rape women of the Opposition party. So people anywhere in India will put tough resistance to restrict their entry...BJP workers are in no way associated with any incident because we know that the TMC is the least important party in Tripura,” Ghosh said.
“Miss Banerjee must explain what are the contributions of her state government in past 10 years’ time for flood control management. Even the city and its outskirts are now submerged following a little downpour. It indicates the drainage and sewerage systems have totally collapsed,"
“Mamata Banerjee has put her opponents, journalists, officials, her own party leaders and ministers under surveillance using Pegasus,” Ghosh told reporters.
Mamata Banerjee observes July 21 as Martyrs' Day every year to remember the 13 persons who were killed at a Youth Congress rally in Kolkata in 1993. Eyeing the party's expansion, the TMC has decided to telecast Banerjee's address across West Bengal, and for the first time, also in other states like Tamil Nadu, Delhi, Punjab, Tripura and poll-bound Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh.
The West Bengal BJP state leadership is facing huge embarrassment following several party leaders making harsh remarks against the party's state president Dilip Ghosh and Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari.
