Even as Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday appealed to Home Minister Amit Shah to bring back peace and normalcy to Delhi’s riot-hit areas, Bengal Opposition parties questioned her “deafening silence” over the BJP’s role in fanning the Capital riots.

Congress Lok Sabha leader Adhir Chowdhury who on Friday evening led a torch rally in Kolkata slammed Mamata for her alleged “duplicity in reacting to the situation in the national Capital.”

He said “when Congress and all other parties were demanding the resignation of Amit Shah — who controls all the central forces head-quartered in the Capital — for his complicity in letting the riots to burn Delhi our Chief Minister maintained a deafening silence… Not only this, she even went to Bhubaneshwar to hobnob with a person whose hands are soaked in blood. This duplicity must be condemned in strongest possible terms.”

On whether the BJP was trying a Gujarat model in Delhi Chowdhury said “they are trying a more ferocious Gujarat model in whole of the country which is why we want this Government to go immediately or if they are allowed to stay in power then they will break the country along religious lines.”

Banerjee earlier said that she had appealed to Shah to do take all possible steps to restore normalcy in Delhi at the earliest. “I have told him about how concerned and disturbed we are over situation in Delhi where many people have been killed and many have been injured and properties worth crores have been destroyed,” Banerjee said.

Reacting to her alleged concern over Delhi riots Bengal BJP president said the “Chief Minister should oil her own machine instead of looking at what is happening in Delhi… Her own state is in turmoil. In Bengal there is no democracy. The political opponents are murdered, their women are raped and their houses are burnt by the Trinamool Congress goons. Let her handle this anomaly before pointing fingers at Delhi.”

Attacking the Chief Minister for sharing dialogue table with Shah and allowing him to hold a rally in Kolkata on Sunday, CPI(M) central committee member Sujan Chakrabarty said that “from her latest actions the people of Bengal should assess the true character of Mamata Banerjee.”

He said “here is a Chief Minister who champions the minority cause and who walks miles against Citizenship Amendment Act in order to garner minority votes but refuses to utter a single word against the Home Minister whose party perpetrated the violence in Delhi and who allowed the minorities to be massacred there.

 She should have felt ashamed of sitting with this person in Bhubaneshwar.”

The Left Legislature Party leader also condemned the State Government for giving permission to BJP for holding a rally at Sahid Minar in Kolkata on Sunday.

“The rally will be addressed by Amit Shah and everyone knows what his intentions are

in Bengal and what his role was in handling the Delhi riots. Still Mamata Banerjee gave him permission to address a rally in Kolkata,” Chakrabarty said reminding “such is the trust between Mamata Banerjee and the BJP that Amit Shah the his first meeting post Delhi riots will not be held in Assam where his own Government rules but it will be held in

Bengal.”CPI(M) politburo member Md Salim also said that not only his party men but also the students of the State will show black flags to Shah when he comes to Bengal.

“The students force that have risen up will show black flags to Amit Shah when he comes to Kolkata on Sunday,” he said.