LoP Suvendu Adhikari pays visit to BJP worker whose house was set on fire

Three days aft his location was allegedly acceptable connected occurrence by Trinamool Congress supporters, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) person Suvendu Adhikari, connected Saturday (January 24, 2026), visited the residence of Tapas Barik, a enactment worker, astatine Onda successful West Bengal’s Bankura’s territory and assured afloat enactment to reconstruct the house.

The thatched location of the BJP idiosyncratic astatine Nandanpur colony nether the Nakajuri gram panchayat country was acceptable connected occurrence connected Wednesday (January 21) night, allegedly by Trinamool supporters. The miscreants not lone acceptable the location connected occurrence but besides bolted the gates of the location from the outside. After Mr. Barik and his aged parents raised an alarm from wrong the house, the villagers rescued them from the house, which was connected fire. A pharmacy of the BJP idiosyncratic was besides vandalised and acceptable connected occurrence by miscreants.

When the Leader of Opposition successful West Bengal Assembly and different BJP leaders from the territory reached the residence of Mr. Barik, each the household workers burst into tears. “ Why are you crying? We volition assistance you repair the house. The full squad (BJP) is with you,” Mr. Adhikari told Mr. Barik.

The BJP person said that the enactment volition instrumentality afloat work for the household of the BJP idiosyncratic and supply enactment to physique the house. Mr. Adhikari threatened ineligible enactment if the perpetrators of the transgression were not apprehended by January 26. He besides assured Tapas Barik of extortion and said helium should not permission the area.

The sojourn of Mr. Adhikari to the residence of BJP workers assumes value arsenic it comes up of Assembly workers successful the State. The West Bengal BJP enactment is often criticised for not lasting by enactment workers who are the receiving extremity of governmental violence.

Several BJP workers were killed and forced to tally distant from their houses aft the Trinamool Congress won the 2021 Assembly polls.