India, March 26 -- Senior BJP leader Dilip Ghosh on Thursday declared during his West Bengal election campaign that if his party comes to power in the state, the police would undergo a transformation. "Uttar Pradesh-style encounters" was his prime promise on this count as he addressed a gathering in Kharagpur.

"After May 4, everything will change. The police you see today sitting and having tea with mafias and acting as 'chamchas' (lackeys) of corrupt leaders will change their character. The same police will conduct encounters in the style of Uttar Pradesh and put criminals behind bars," he said, as per news agency PTI.

A former state unit president of the BJP, Ghosh alleged that police personnel in Trinamool Congress-ruled West Bengal ...