{"id":5478,"date":"2019-05-14T17:38:37","date_gmt":"2019-05-14T12:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=5478"},"modified":"2019-05-15T16:10:08","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T10:40:08","slug":"bjp-worker-in-central-force-uniform-accompanying-partys-bengal-chief-dilip-ghosh-trinamool-congress-alleges-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/bjp-worker-in-central-force-uniform-accompanying-partys-bengal-chief-dilip-ghosh-trinamool-congress-alleges-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"BJP worker in “Central force uniform” accompanying party\u2019s Bengal chief Dilip Ghosh: Trinamool Congress alleges on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trinamool Congress today alleged that a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) “supporter”, Vivek Sonkar, was seen with the party\u2019s West Bengal chief Dilip Ghosh in various booths wearing CRPF uniform.<\/p>\n

\u201cIs the person sitting beside you in CRPF uniform, Mr @DilipGhoshBJP , a #BJP supporter? Isn\u2019t his name Vivek Sonkar who was seen with you in different booths? So is this the new strategy using BJP karyakartas dressed in camouflage to threaten the voters and distribute cash for votes\u201d: this was tweeted by Diptansu Chaudhury, joint convener, social media and digital communication, All India Trinamool Congress.<\/p>\n

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One of the pictures posted by the Trinamool Congress official<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Chaudhury has posted two photographs \u2013 showing the BJP\u2019s Bengal chief Dilip Ghosh with a few people sitting in front of him, listening to him. Two security personnel with firearms are seen standing behind. Another person is sitting on Ghosh\u2019s left \u2013 also in camouflage clothes \u2013 listening intently. This person has been shown highlighted in Chaudhury\u2019s post on Twitter, and identified as Vivek Sonkar.<\/p>\n

In another photograph, the person claimed to be Vivek Sonkar, is seen walking, in camouflage clothes with several people behind him. It is not clear who are following him \u2013 whether or not they are BJP party workers. However, one of these men has his head covered with a saffron cloth, and some others too are seen carrying saffron cloths thrown around their shoulders. One person is seen in saffron kurta and a similar coloured flag is seen in the background.<\/p>\n

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Dilip Ghosh was not available for comment but a BJP spokesperson confirmed that the person referred to was indeed Sonkar. However, he said that Sonkar was \u201cnot wearing CRPF uniform\u201d. \u201cHe was wearing clothes with camouflage print that is available in the market,\u201d the BJP spokesperson said.<\/p>\n

Vivek Sonkar\u2019s profile on Twitter describes him as National Vice President Bharatiya Janata Party Scheduled Caste Morcha and Central Observer: Bihar and Kashi Kshetra (UP). The photograph below is from his Twitter account and looks like the person sitting with Dilip Ghosh in the picture above.<\/p>\n

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Photograph from the Twitter account of Vivek Sonkar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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According to a Trinamool Congress insider, \u201cIt is highly objectionable for party workers to wear camouflage clothes to give the impression to people that they are part of the Central force. We will take it up with the Election Commission.\u201d<\/p>\n

[Cover image tweeted by Diptansu Chaudhury, joint convener, social media and digital communication, All India Trinamool Congress]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BJP confirmed it was Sonkar, but said he was not in CRPF uniform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-bengal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5478"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=5478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}