Panaji, December 10, : .Goa BJP President Sadanand Shet Tanavade called Friday for a halt to the massive influx of Trinamool Congress workers into the state.He accused the cadre of the West Bengal-based party of having a khooni (bloody), mentality.
“They have a ‘khooni’ mentality.People are joining them against their own wishes for fear of their lives.Their politics is vulgar.
There should be a control over the volume (of TMC workers) coming into Goa,” Tanavade told reporters in Panaji.
The state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president also said that while visits to the poll-bound states by party leaders were fair, the influx of hordes of party workers to a poll-bound state posed concerns.
All leaders of any party are welcomed in Goa.That is what we don’t mind.We have no problem with Mamata Banerjee coming to Goa.The concern is with the lower-level workers.They are different.They shouldn’t force them to come here in order to fulfill their agenda.It is not right for them to do this.He said that this could lead to many things.”
The issue of alleged mass influx of TMC workers to Goa was first put in the public domain by the official handle of the Goa BJP, which uploaded a video of Bengali-speaking persons alighting at a Goa railway station.
TMC has claimed that the video is fake.
Tanavade also said that there was a vast gulf between the political cultures in Goa and West Bengal, adding that in West Bengal post-poll violence was common, unlike Goa.
“In Goa, we have a different mentality.Political workers from across parties are not enemies after elections, even though in the run up to polls political allegations are made.But outside the political realm, we are friends.Finally, we are human beings.But in West Bengal, the nature of politics is different,” Tanavade said.
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