Bengal BJP chief warns Trinamool of ‘UP dawai’
threatening to ‘relegate to history’ those who oppose Hindutva to warning Trinamool Congress of ‘UP dawai’, BJP Bengal unit chief Dilip Ghosh continued to strike controversies during his speech at party rallies on Sunday.
“Bharat Mata Ki Jai and Jai Sri Ram will be chanted all over the country – from Gujarat to Guwahati and from Kashmir to Kanyakumari. Dare not oppose it, for the consequence will be dire. They will be relegated to history,” Ghosh said at Basirhat in North 24 Parganas district.
Over the past few weeks, Ghosh, a senior pracharak of RSS, has made it a routine to make controversial remarks on religious issues. He has also issued several threats to the state government and the ruling party, Trinamool Congress.
On Sunday, he threatened to beat Trinamool Congress workers black and blue should they try harassing BJP workers.
Issuing a direct challenge to chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Ghosh said, “Let the chief minister try stopping Dilip Ghosh. BJP will create havoc.”
Trinamool Congress, however, downplayed Ghosh’s threats.
An operation is under way to rescue a sixyear-old child who on Saturday fell in a borewell at a village in north Karnataka’s Belagavi district.
“Hard soil and rocks around the borewell are hampering the operation to rescue six-year-old Kaveri, trapped in the borewell when she slipped and fell on Saturday evening while playing with friends,” a National Disaster Response Force member told reporters here.
“We have dug a 10-foot tunnel so far and efforts are on to dig 20 feet more to reach Kaveri and pull her out of the borewell at the earliest,” the official said.
The team also attempted to pull out Kaveri with hooks and ropes from the narrow and dark hole but did not succeed, the official added.
Savitha, the girl’s mother, was rushed to a nearby state-run hospital for treatment after she fainted on learning about her daughter’s plight.
Chief minister Siddaramaiah said in Bengaluru that a criminal case would be filed against those responsible for the girl’s accidental fall into the borewell.
“It is the responsibility of the landowner and borewell contractor to inform the gram panchayat about the borewell being open, and (leaving it) without covering or fencing it,” added Siddaramaiah. In a related development, BJP’s state unit president BS Yeddyurappa urged the state government to take steps to prevent children becoming victims of such open borewells.
“Such a tragedy can be averted if the authorities covered or shut down the borewell,” said Yeddyurappa in Bengaluru.
THE RESCUE TEAM ALSO ATTEMPTED TO PULL OUT KAVERI WITH HOOKS AND ROPES FROM THE NARROW AND DARK HOLE BUT DID NOT SUCCEED