West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers afraid of going back

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DHUBRI: Nearly 1,000 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers and sympathizers who fled the Coochbehar district of West Bengal on Tuesday and are taking shelter in the Dhubri district of Assam are not willing to go back.

The civil administrative officials of West Bengal visited the camps and assured the inmates of protection and security, but the panic-stricken BJP workers refused to go back.

A newly-elected BJP legislator from Tufanganj Assembly Constituency in Coochbehar district of West Bengal, Malati Rabha, who also rushed to the camps in Dhubri district on Thursday evening, told media persons that the situation was still volatile in Coochbehar.

"We can't risk our workers, sympathizers and their family members right now. Our workers' houses were torched, workers and their family members were dragged out to the streets, beaten and killed under the very nose of the police and public in broad daylight. How can we trust the police?" Rabha said while narrating the incidents involving the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in West Bengal. Rabha said that the BJP workers, sympathizers and family members would return home only when the law-and-order situation improved and normalcy was restored in West Bengal.

Assam State BJP president Ranjeet Kumar Dass, organizing secretary Phanidra Sarma, MP Rajdeep Roy and former State party vice-president Bimal Oswal also visited the relief camps and took stock of the inmates staying there and instructed party workers of Dhubri district to provide them shelter, food and other essentials.

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