A day after the attack on people from the minority community at Makra village in Birbhum district of West Bengal, State BJP president Rahul Sinha said on Tuesday that minorities in the State are shifting their allegiance from the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) to the BJP.
“There are 28 per cent Muslim voters in West Bengal, of which 24 per cent support Trinamool Congress. The BJP is eating into the minority votes and this is resulting in attacks by the Trinamool Congress,” Mr Sinha said.
State BJP leader said that after the Lok Sabha polls, two BJP activists were killed in Birbhum district on June 7 and October 9. He pointed out that Tausheer Sheikh, a BJP supporter was killed in a violent incident on October 27.
While the AITC leadership said that the BJP is intimidating minorities to enter into its fold, the Congress leadership is of the opinion that the minorities joining BJP is a “temporary phenomenon”.
“There are disgruntled elements in every party who change their allegiance, but what the BJP is trying is malign a particular committee so that it feels threatened and joins them,” AITC MP Sultan Ahmed told The Hindu .
