Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari defends book vandals: Ire at 'anti-nation, anti-Sanatan writings'

Bookstall Vandalism in Bengal: Left & its legacy of political violence

During Durga Puja, some isolated incidents in the newly BJP-ruled Bengal sparked a debate. One such incident involved reports that a group of Hindutva-oriented or BJP-supporting individuals had vandalised CPI(M) bookstalls at several locations. Undoubtedly, vandalising a bookstall is an offence, irrespective of the ideology it represents, unless the stall is being used to promote unlawful or anti-national activities. If the allegations are true …

Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari defends book vandals: Ire at 'anti-nation, anti-Sanatan writings'

The chief minister’s public support for the bookstall attacks came days after his own finance minister, Swapan Dasgupta, and party Bengal chief Samik Bhattacharya had condemned the barbarity alongside Jisnu Basu of the RSS

Suvendu Adhikari Uses Slurs Against Left Book Stalls, Ignores 19 Pandal Deaths

While the chief minister has defended the Puja book stall attacks, internal party condemnation has come in of those incidents.