‘Join us or lose benefits of govt schemes,’ TMC leader Modassar Hossain caught forcing ISF workers to join TMC

Mamata Banerjee led TMC is showing the people of West Bengal what real authoritarianism looks like. In a shocking incident, a TMC leader has allegedly warned Indian Secular Front (ISF) workers to join TMC otherwise they would be denied basic welfare benefits like ration, 100 days work under MGNREGA, and entry into hospitals.

“Either surrender or ask for 100-day work from Fufura Sharif leaders,” Modassar Hossain said, standing by Bhangar Trinamool leader Arabul Islam. The panchayat pradhan also threatened to “reap the farmland belonging to ISF supporters” if they failed to abide by the diktat.

ISF MLA Naushad Siddique held a press conference on the issue of denial of benefits to opposition voters. Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh said: “This is nothing new. BJP voters are being denied certificates, ration and even relief.”

There have been allegations of TMC workers involved in the death and harassment of workers of other parties since the TMC came to power.

Ever since Mamata Banerjee was re-elected to power in West Bengal, alleged TMC goons have unleashed violence on BJP leaders, especially on those belonging to lower castes. From burning their homes to murder and threats of rape, the goons have made life difficult for any person even remotely associated with BJP.

Previously, a Muslim TMC leader told a Dalit BJP leader to send his wife for few days to him for being allowed to return to his village. “Send your wife Pinki to me for few days, then only we will allow you back in the village,” were the words of a local TMC leader, Muzaffar, to the husband of a Hindu Dalit BJP worker in Minakhan assembly constituency area, district North 24 Parganas, West Bengal.

In the Muslim dominated villages of West Bengal, a massive Hindu exodus is taking place because the alleged TMC goons have made life a living hell for them since the day Mamata Banerjee was re-elected to power.

Devdutta Maji, a BJP candidate who is also the president of social organisation Singha Bahini, recorded a video of the people who were forced to become refugees due to violence from the goons. Pinki Baj (BJP women’s wing treasurer in the area), her husband Sadhan Baj, tell their story to Maji in the above video.

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“Muslims attacked Hindu families in the village after the election results on 2 May,” said Pinki. “We all fled with just the clothes on our back. Later when I called local (TMC) committee leader Muzaffar Baig, he said ‘send your wife first, then later you can come’,” told her husband Sadhan.

“We request Modi ji to protect us Hindus from the atrocities heaped on us by Muslims,” Pinki pleaded.

The post-poll violence in West Bengal has birthed a humanitarian crisis in the state as hundreds of BJP workers, fearing for their lives, have migrated to the neighbouring state of Assam. Previously, taking to Twitter, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma revealed that almost 300-400 Bengal BJP workers had crossed over to Dhubri in Assam to escape the brutality under the TMC regime.

Although Himanta has extended help to the refugees, the Union government is yet to take any action. It is not like the central machinery had not anticipated such an outcome after the results. The TMC supremo in public had threatened the non-TMC voters during the election trail. As reported previously by TFI, according to a Zee News Hindi report, during a rally in Nandigram, where Mamata lost the assembly polls — she shot out a warning to the BJP voters saying she will come after them when the centrally deployed forces return to their bases after the election.

The TMC workers in West Bengal are showing what real authoritarianism and attempt to establish one party rule looks like, and every other party must militantly come behind its workers and vote base to save them from the TMC goons.