Opposition leaders in West Bengal being forced to join TMC at 'sword-point', claims Kailash Vijaywargiya

Indore: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) JP general secretary Kailash Vijaywargiya has claimed Opposition leaders in West Bengal are being forced to join the Trinamool Congress at ‘sword-point’, by implicating them in false cases, and that Islam also came to the country in a similar manner. BJP’s main strategist for the West Bengal polls held earlier this year, Vijaywargiya, made these comments recently while responding to a question from reporters on a number of his party leaders switching over to the ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal. He said that he was reminded of an incident that Islam entered the country at sword-point and in Bengal also, people were being forced to join the Trinamool Congress at sword-point, he felt both the incidents were similar. He further claimed that the law and order had “totally collapsed” in West Bengal and BJP leaders there were being implicated in false and serious cases of dacoity, murder and corruption. He said that there were 20 cases going on against him alone (in West Bengal), “when the government was hell-bent on murdering the Opposition, then how was a person supposed to live there (in West Bengal). Attacking West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Vijaywargiya said that in the history of the country, if a name of a dictator will be written who has no faith in democracy, then Banerjee’s name will figure in it. He went on to say that India’s democracy was being praised the world over, but he could say it with full responsibility in his capacity as the BJP’s general secretary that there was no democracy in West Bengal.