He also predicted doom for Congress and the CPIM saying that most of their party members would defect to BJP before the Panchayat elections.
State BJP president Dilip Ghosh once again set speculations afoot after he said that few TMC leaders might get arrested before the Panchayat elections in Bengal next year.
“Who knows what would happen to the party if two or three of the leaders are put behind the bars ahead of the Panchayat polls. In that case morale of party workers will hit rock bottom and TMC might not be in a position to contest the election at all,” Ghosh said at the end of the two-day party state executive committee meeting at Burdwan district on Tuesday.
He also predicted doom for Congress and the CPIM saying that most of their party members would defect to BJP before the Panchayat elections. “Most of the Congress and CPIM workers are likely to join BJP by then. I am not sure if they would be able to field candidates for all panchayats,” Ghosh said.
Referring to the party’s preparedness for the Panchayat polls he said that in order to prevent booth capturing by the ruling regime, BJP would ensure that there would be ‘booth defence groups’ for all booths across the state comprising 20 workers in each group.
On Monday, Ghosh had said that looking at the political developments in the state, the next Assembly elections in West Bengal might be brought ahead from 2021 to 2019 when it could be simultaneously conducted along with Lok Sabha polls. “I think we would not have to wait till 2021 for the next Assembly elections here. The way TMC is going, people might have to cast their votes for the Lok Sabha and the Assembly, together on 2019,” he had said yesterday at the end of Day 1 of the meeting.
The TMC organised rallies at Naxalbari in North Bengal and at New Town on the eastern fringes of Kolkata at the places where BJP state president Amit Shah had visited last week. Ghosh said that TMC was replicating the tactics of CPIM when it was in power. “They used to do the same thing. Wherever any Opposition party carried out a rally, they used to counter that with another rally. The TMC is doing the same,” Ghosh added.
TMC leaders, however, refused to pay too much attention to Ghosh’s comments. All India TMC secretary general Dr Partha Chatterjee said he was not sure if the BJP had enough workers to provide at all the booths during the polls. “Let alone a lotus, not even a petal will be found in Bengal,” he said.
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