Stern action if any link found, says Abhishek
31 May 2018 5:34 PM GMT
Kolkata: Abhishek Banerjee, Trinamool Congress MP and president of the party's youth wing has categorically said that stern action will be taken against those involved in the murder of Trilochon Mahato in Purulia's Balarampur if the BJP can prove his party's involvement of any sort.
Banerjee said that his party workers are not involved in the murder of Mahato. "He died due to infighting or it was the sequel to a family feud," he maintained.
A tweet of BJP's national president Amit Shah said: "Deeply hurt by the brutal killing of our young karyakarta, Trilochan Mahato, in Balarampur, West Bengal. A young life full of possibilities was brutally taken under state's patronage. He was hanged on a tree just because his ideology differed from that of state-sponsored goons."
The body of 18-year-old Mahato was found hanging from a tree a day after the Panchayat election was declared. There was a poster which was found near the tree that read because of his involvement with the BJP at such an early age, he had to pay the price. Trilochan's father Panu Mahato is a BJP worker as well.
It may be mentioned that in a recent interview to a vernacular television channel, Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee had said that 13 party workers had been killed by the Opposition. She had said as the Trinamool Congress was confident of its victory then why should the workers take recourse to violence.
Abhishek said his party did not believe in violence. "BJP is creating trouble everywhere and then trying to put the blame on the Trinamool Congress." The police is investing the matter.
Partha Chatterjee, TMC secretary general, has also denied the involvement of his party workers in the murder. "We do not believe in the politics of hate and murder. Our workers had been killed but we have never retaliated to take revenge."
In Balarampur, the BJP has bagged two Zila Parishad seats. Out of 17 Gram Panchayat seats, BJP secured 17 while the TMC had got three seats. In Gram Panchayat, out of 92 seats BJP got 70 while the TMC got 22 seats.
The Trinamool leaders said BJP had got only 22 seats in 822-member Zilla Parishad in Bengal where elections were held. It bagged 5,747 Gram Panchayat and 752 seats in Panchayat Samity.
Under such a situation the BJP is no threat to the TMC and so there was no question of resorting to violence, the TMC leaders said.
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