“Your leaders are welcome. We are against violence,” Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said.
Highlight
- Mamata Banerjee questioned why the BJP failed to protect its party boss
- He wondered if the attack on JP Nadda could have been “planned.”
- The police will investigate, the Bengal prime minister added.
Calcutta:
Bengal Prime Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday questioned why the BJP, with all the central forces at its disposal, was unable to protect its party chief during his visit to Bengal and wondered if the attack on JP Nadda could have been “planned”. It could also be the result of public anger after an accident. “If there was a small incident, I don’t know if there was one. But in a tea shop, one of the 50 cars in your convoy may have hit someone, or something was thrown or was planned. The police will. We will not tolerate all your lies. Enough is enough, “Ms. Banerjee said.
The attack on Nadda’s convoy, allegedly by supporters of Ms. Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress, took place yesterday as she was on her way to Diamond Harbor, the constituency of Trinamool MP and Ms. Banerjee’s nephew, Abhishek Banerjee.
Amid the uproar, BJP leaders point the finger at the law and order situation in Bengal and its ruling party. Nadda’s predecessor at the BJP, Union Minister Amit Shah, has ordered an investigation into the lack of security of a Z-Plus category leader. Mr. Dilip Ghosh, head of BJP Bengal, wrote to Mr. Shah yesterday about Mr. Nadda’s safety after he was shown black flags in Kolkata.
“You have so many CISF-BSF commandos. So how can they touch your car? What about your people with shotguns?” Ms Banerjee asked, referring to the death of a BJP worker from shotgun wounds. Police have denied using that variety of firearm.
They are importing a new Hindu Dharma. That Hindu Dharma is not our Hindu Dharma. They are passing off a disgusting dharma as a Hindu dharma that neither you nor I have anything to do with. This is how Hitler became Hitler, this is how Ceausescu became Ceausescu. Mussolini became Mussolini. Today, this Narendra Babu sarkar just plan the drama, create drama, and submit videos of the drama they created to the media. And the media has no power to question them. they may send their own drama to the media, “he added.
“Every day (the BJP activists) go out (to the demonstrations) with firearms. They slap and blame the Trinamool Congress. Just think about the situation. They are wandering with the BSF, CRPF, Army, CISF … So why are you so scared? “
The Bengal government has said that it has not received any requests to provide security for Mr. Nadda. Mamata Banerjee emphasized this point. “The state is not reported, but when there is a problem, the state is blamed,” he said.
He also questioned the size of the convoy and the following media personnel.
“Your leaders are welcome. We are against violence,” said the Chief Minister at a rally at the foot of the Gandhi statue on Mayo Road in central Kolkata. “But why are 50 cars following you? And bicycles and media cars? So who was standing there? Who threw stones? Is it planned? You are so smart, you can use satellite surveillance of everything,” he added .
The BJP, he said, was being dramatic. “What happens when I go to Delhi? In Delhi, I stay at Derek’s house (Party MP Derek O’Brien). Every time BJP people do gherao in the house, he said.
“They (BJP) have no other job. Sometimes the Minister of the Interior is here, other times it is Chaddha, Nadda, Fadda, Bhaddha. When they have no audience, they call their workers to do nautanki“Ms Banerjee said.
The Chief Minister’s nephew, Abhishek Banerjee, in whose constituency the attack took place, said: “If the people don’t like the BJP, what can we do?”
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