A BJP leader from Bengal has advised people to keep a trident for self-defense.

Kolkata :

A BJP leader from West Bengal has asked Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers to keep a trident with them to protect themselves during the panchayat elections.

BJP leader Raju Bandopadhyay said at the Jagadhatri Puja program on the outskirts of Kolkata that the Trinamool Congress would turn violent during the panchayat elections.

In such a situation, women must keep a trident in the house to protect BJP workers.

TMC MLA Tapas Roy has criticized this remark. 

BJP MP from Bengal Dilip Ghosh, who was present at the event in which Bandopadhyay made these remarks, was seen clapping on the statement.

Rai of Trinamool Congress and Ghosh of BJP inaugurated Jagadhatri Puja at opposite ends of the road in the same area.

Bandopadhyay said, "Trinamool Congress will use bombs and bullets in Panchayat elections. What do we have to defend ourselves? To save ourselves, we should have the trishul which mother (Durga) has given us. Every mother and sister TMC MLA Roy, on the other hand, said that the statement of the BJP leader is not correct and the administration should look into it.

Roy said, "They want people to keep Trishul in their house and some people will ask them to keep other things in the house. Healthy politics, peace and order in Punjab will be affected by this."

They talk of peace in Bengal but give such provocative defenses.

Roy said that they don't want peace in Bengal, they don't think about Bengal but we think about the state, its culture and traditions, that's why we can't say such things.

Panchayat elections in West Bengal are due early next year.

In the last elections, there was a lot of violence in the state, in such a situation there has been a demand for deployment of central forces in the state BJP leadership.

BJP veteran Dilip Ghosh said, "There is no guarantee that central forces will be deployed. Last time also we had asked for it. We knew what was going to happen. But we have to contest elections, And BJP is preparing for it.

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