BJP President Nadda warns state leaders against demanding for breaking up Bengal
JP Nadda, national president pf BJP, came to Bengal on a two-day visit. He came on June 7 and left on June 9.
On Wednesday, June 8, he addressed party workers in Kolkata. Harping on the electoral sweet that BJP has effected, he said India is now not just “Congress mukt” (“free of Congress”) but “Congress lupt” (“Congress has disappeared”).
“Indian National Congress is neither Indian nor national. Its leaders talk to the workers from London. It has become a party of brother-sister,” he said.
The next day, June 9, Nadda met with the state’s BJP legislators at a hotel in Kolkata. Ever since the 2021 assembly election, several BJP leaders have been calling for a separate state comprising of the districts of north Bengal whie some have demanded a state in Jangalmahal.
The BJP president, however, warned state leaders at the meeting against speaking up on demands for a separate state, an indication, some state leaders said, that pointed to the central leadership considering the demand as politically counterproductive.
