BJP worker Prasanta Haldar told The Indian Express, "I was forced to leave home in 2021 after the Assembly polls, and then after panchayat polls last year."
If the state fails to control this violence, we have to make a decision that in the next five years, the Central forces will stay in this state,” the court noted.
Reacting to Arjun Singh's post on counting agents' arrest by West Bengal Police, BJP's IT Cell chief Amit Malviya said, "Mamata Banerjee has reduced West Bengal to a police state. Widespread reports of intimidation and unlawful arrest of BJP’s counting agents coming from across Bengal. But TMC won’t be able to stop us. People of Bengal are with the BJP."
Such cases of forced religious conversion of Hindus remind us of the 1971 war of independence of Bangladesh when several Hindu families had to convert to Islam to save their lives from the extreme notoriety of Pakistani occupation forces.
TMC's politics of violence (as witnessed post-elections), atrocities against women (as seen in Sandeshkhali), exploitation of the poor (cut money syndicate) and Muslim appeasement have pushed voters to the corner.