BJP’s Swapan Dasgupta interview: ‘Mamata govt’s intention was to not allow a protest of the main opposition party… They deliberately made it a violent thing’ | Political Pulse News,The Indian Express

Swapan Dasgupta, Member, BJP National Executive said, “Mamata Banerjee can fight us politically. She has every right to do so, that is how our democracy functions. But, instead of fighting us democratically and through the use of politics, she is using police”

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													BJP’s Swapan Dasgupta interview: ‘Mamata govt’s intention was to not allow a protest of the main opposition party… They deliberately made it a violent thing’
													
														Swapan Dasgupta, Member, BJP National Executive said, “Mamata Banerjee can fight us politically. She has every right to do so, that is how our democracy functions. But, instead of fighting us democratically and through the use of politics, she is using police”

															
					
											
						
														
								
									
										
											
																									
													
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	Kolkata | Updated: September 15, 2022  8:08:05 pm														
													
															
													
												
												


		
		
			
				
			
		
		
			
				
			
		
		
			
				
			
		
		
			
			
			
		
	

											
											
														
														
														
													Swapan Dasgupta, former Rajya Sabha MP from the BJP during an interview with The Indian Express at his Mahanirvan Road residence in South Kolkata. (Express photo by Partha Paul)Former Rajya Sabha MP Swapan Dasgupta was among the BJP leaders who received injuries as partymen clashed with police in an effort to organise protest marches in Kolkata on September 13. He speaks to The Indian Express on police action during the protest, the prospects of the BJP in the state, and why corruption will be an issue in the coming polls. Excerpts:

This was a planned demonstration. Notice was given two weeks ago. Mobilisation was done in all districts. So, it was a public as well as a political programme. It was also planned that there will be three marches. One from Santragachhi, one from Howrah and one from Kolkata. So, everything in this programme was transparent. The role of police is obviously to protect Nabanna, the headquarters of the state government. But it is also to regulate the march, the demonstration of a political party. If, instead of doing these things, your (police’s) main purpose was to suppress a demonstration, prevent the demonstration from taking place, put obstacles in people’s path, then what happened was inevitable.

I believe the intention of the Mamata Banerjee government was to not allow the demonstration of the main opposition party but to prevent it from actually mobilising and showing its strength. So, what should have been a normal, peaceful affair saw violence, with workers getting injured, needless tear gassing, use of water cannons, and people being stopped from travel by railway, bus and other means. This was a suppression of democratic dissent.

You have also said you received injuries.

I was part of the march from College Square to the Old Howrah Bridge. Police put up barricades before the bridge, which is understandable. As soon as the demonstrators approached the barricades, they used water cannons, followed up by firing of teargas shells, when there was no need to do so. Immediately after, they started a lathicharge, not just to push the people back, but to disperse the entire demonstration altogether.

https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/bjp-swapan-dasgupta-bengal-mamata-banerjee-8152802/


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