BJP supporters’ kin from Bengal flee to Assam
Assam BJP president Ranjeet Kumar Dass on Wednesday rushed to western Assam’s Dhubri district with relief material for more than 400 BJP workers and their family members who crossed over to Assam to escape post-poll violence in neighbouring West Bengal.
Informing that a team of BJP workers are accompanying him to look after the victims of Bengal violence, Assam BJP president Dass told reporters, “The BJP workers and their families from Bengal can live in Assam as long as they don't feel safe about returning to West Bengal. We are giving shelter and food to all those who fled their state.”
The BJP has alleged that goons backed by the Trinamool Congress have killed their workers, attacked women members, vandalised houses, looted shops belonging to party members and ransacked party offices. The party has claimed that nine people have died in violence across six districts so far.
The exodus of BJP workers along with their families from West Bengal continued even on Wednesday due to postelection violence unleashed allegedly by TMC goons. Assam minister Himanta Biswa Sarma who regretted the incident on Tuesday claimed that around 300-400 people had entered Dhubri district in Assam from north Bengal.
Dass, accompanied by Assam MP Rajdeep Roy, visited the camps where the refugees have been kept and distributed relief material. Roy informed that around 600 people from Bengal have been given shelter at a camp at Agamoni in Dhubri. He added that most of the people in the camp are children and women, and that more such camps have been set up at other places in the district.
Roy also said that all the people who have entered Assam are from Cooch Behar district in West Bengal, where BJP won 7 out of 9 Assembly seats. “Can only imagine the condition of the districts where TMC has majority seats. This is what Mamata has reduced Bengal to. Really deplorable,” he added.
The victims of Bengal violence who have fled to Assam told reporters that they were forced to flee after they were attacked by TMC workers. They said that they were beaten by the TMC goons, their women molested, the houses demolished, and their properties and livestock were looted.
Meanwhile, the district administration of Dhubri has informed the Cooch Behar district administration about the development. They have said that when someone fears for their life, they will flee to a place where they feel safe, and therefore the district administration is providing them shelter to stay in Assam for the time being.