Venue : Jorapukur More, Konnagar
Date : 28th December 2014
Time : 5 pm to 9 pm
Event : ProtibadSoptahoPalon, Street
Corner by BJYM, KonnagarMondal
Speakers : Jaswant
Singh, BJYM, President KonnagarMondal
SubrataMitra,
BJP, District Committee Member, Hooghly District
PrabirPakhira,
BJP, Secretary, Hooghly District
Subir
Nag, BJP, Vice-President, Hooghly District
Krishna Bhattacharjee, President, Hooghly
District
Preparation for meeting
11:00 am :
Jaswant Singh along with BJYM co-workers went to the spot for putting up banners,
flags and loudspeakers (mike) so that the Street corner can be started on time.
14 loudspeakers were installed for the meeting and flags were fixed on lamp
posts which took almost 1.5 hours’ time. While doing these activities they
found a group of young guys doing picnic and playing music through DJ box,
behind the spot of street corner.
1:00 pm :
BJYM workers came back from the venue after preparing it for Street Corner Meeting
which was due at 5 pm.
Meeting
5:00 pm onwards: All reached the spot and found
another group of young guys doing picnic just bang opposite to the spot of
street corner meeting with music on full blast on DJ boxes. DJ boxes faced the
street corner spot! These guys were not there till 1 pm when Jaswant Singh and
his BJYM co-workers left the spot after preparing it for street corner meeting.
Needless to say, it’s a cunning TMC initiative without flag or banner to spoil
the BJYM street corner. Jaswant Singh, BJYM, President KonnagarMondal requested
the young group over loudspeakers to reduce the volume of the DJ boxes so that
they can start their street corner meeting. 2 policemen present at the spot
also persuaded the group of young guys to reduce the volume of DJ boxes, which
they responded to. They reduced the volume. Street corner meeting started with
Jaswant Singh as the first speaker. Other district leadership was yet to
arrive. Within 15 – 20 minutes district leadership arrived while Jaswant
continued with his speech. After 30 minutes of Jaswant’s speech the DJ boxes
went full blast again. According to Jaswant, “the music was so loud that I was
hardly able to hear what I said.” By this time BJYM had a gathering of 50 plus
people at the spot including district leadership along with other leaders like
Anil Roy, Ex-President BJYM, UttarparaMondal; SubrataChoudhury, Ex-President
BJP, UttarparaMondal; SaraswatiChoudhury, Ex-President BhartiyaMahilaMorcha,
Hooghly District. They all requested to reduce the volume of DJ boxes to that
young group which they didn’t listen to. To utter surprise, 4-5 policemen
present at the spot didn’t intervene! Having no other options left to continue
the street corner meeting the district leadership opted for road blockade at the
spot.
Out of thin air 200-250 people gathered at the spot
and started protesting why the road was blocked? The group started using
abusive language with we can’t write here to all the BJP workers and leaders,
didn’t bother about so many ladies were present at the spot. They started
throwing away the chairs which BJYM brought for street corner meeting. The
group went frenzy which induced scuffle between BJP workers and the group of
200-250 people. Mr Anil Roy being a well-built person became the target of the
frenzy group and they started pushing him to a corner. One of those people who
pushed Anil Roy suddenly fell on the ground and didn’t move at all. Immediately
the issue was made as an outsider came and beaten a localite, the group started
bashing Anil Roy mercilessly. Within 5 minutes, an ambulance arrived at the
scene and took the person, who was lying on the ground, to the hospital. Somehow
the BJYM workers were able to free Anil Roy from the mob, but by that time he
was beaten black and blue. Vijay Pandey, a BJP karyakarta from Rishra took Anil
Roy as pillion on his motorbike and escaped the scene, later Anil Roy was
hospitalised.
When the frenzy group saw that Anil Roy was not in
their hand anymore, they cordoned the District Leadership and didn’t allow them
to move away from the scene. Krishna Bhattacharya, Subir Nag, SubrataMitra,
Jaswant Singh, PrabirPakhira, SubrataChoudhury were “gheraoed” and frenzy group
started cursing NaMo. They said, “If you want to do BJP go to Delhi, not in
West Bengal” the also said, “where was BJP in last 34 years? We ousted CPM, you
all have no place here in West Bengal.” They caught hold of SubrataMitra and
slapped him. While slapping they asked, “Are you Subir Nag?”
After being gheraoed for 40 minutes,a large police
force came to the scene . BJP leaders and karyakartas were rescued form the
frenzy group of goons.
Series of few events such as, picnic with DJ box,
music at full blast, 200-250 people’s immediate gathering, appearance of
ambulance within 5 minutes, police inaction, the faces in
that 200-250 people crowd, the language used while district BJP leadership were
“gheraoed” confirmed that this was not a spontaneous affair, it was a planned
activity carried out by ruling party. Plan to disrupt the BJYM street corner
meeting. The planning was done after BJYM workers left the spot at 1:00 pm and
was perfectly executed when required.