Campaigning for the West Bengal assembly elections is ongoing in the state which will go to polls in eight phases starting from March 27, 2021, to April 29, 2021 and the counting of votes will take place on May 2, 2021. Following which the situation are getting heated up with the tiniest spark. On Tuesday, 16 March, Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra took to Twitter to claim that UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, during one of his rallies on 16 March in West Bengal had threatened to “kill” TMC workers one by one, if the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is elected to power in the state.
Moitra took these words too dearly and severely criticized Yogi through her tweet Moitra in her tweet wrote, “So Yogi CM comes to WB today, says he will kill “TMC goondas” one by one. Gudduji – listen up – your thok do culture may work in the vanar sena commune you ruled, doesn’t work here.”
Although after a thorough research, it was found that, Yogi’s first rally in Balarampur in Purulia district used to be are living streamed by means of the West Bengal unit of BJP on YouTube. In his roughly 19-minute-long speech, Yogi at 3.36 minute mark begins talking about political violence in West Bengal.
Five minutes and 12 seconds into the video, we pay attention him say that, “TMC goons responsible for murdering BJP workers in the state will be punished by law.”
Yogi’s second rally, live streamed by his Facebook page, was organised in West Medinipur’s Belda.
Even in this speech –16 minutes into the video – the UP chief minister makes a reference to BJP workers killed in West Bengal and says that after 2 May, law will punish those behind this violence.
During his speech at Raipur, Adityanath referred to TMC workers as “goondas” (goons) twice, 6 minutes into his speech, to state that schemes launched by the central government for the welfare of people do not reach the people of Bengal because of TMC “goons”.
Hence, the claims are simply misleading as the UP CM did not comment anything that brutal and there isn’t any point out of “killing” TMC employees anyplace.
