Reacting strongly to Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s statement — that Mamata Banerjee Government’s dilly dallying with the grant of requisite lands was causing an inordinate delay in the construction of fences along the India-Bangladesh borders — the Trinamool Congress on Thursday that the Centre was not serious about fencing in order to play politics of polarisation in Bengal.

“They are blaming Bengal Government but they are themselves not serious about border fencing in many areas, not only this they are also raising questions on infiltration though it is the Border Security Force that works under the Union Home Ministry which is responsible for checking infiltration,” TMC leader Arup Bhattacharya said.

Earlier slamming the State Government for obstructing the completion of border fencing Shah said that open borders were leading to large scale infiltration.

Shah told the Lok Sabha that 450 km of fencing still remained to be completed due to non-cooperation from the Mamata Banerjee Government.

“The fencing work of 450 km is still to be completed because the State is not giving land for it,” Shah said, alleging how the TMC was repeatedly causing hindrances to the security efforts. Out of about 4,100 kms long border Bengal, shares the longest land border with Bangladesh at 2,217 km.

Earlier Bengal Opposition Leader Suvendu Adhikari too slammed the Mamata Banerjee Government for encouraging infiltrations so as to keep her vote banks intact.

“Thousands of Rohingyas are entering from Bangladesh with the help of the local police and the TMC men, the Government is not doing to stop this because they constitute the vote bank of Mamata Banerjee,” Adhikari said adding how the same Chief Minister when she was the opposition leader had accused the CPI(M) Government of encouraging in infiltration from Bangladesh for vote bank politics.

Meanwhile in a parallel development one person was seriously injured when bombs were hurled and gunshots fired outside the Bhatpara residence of senior BJP leader and former MP Arjun Singh. The BJP leader said that the son of a local Trinamool Congress councilor was behind the attack.

The BJP leader and his supporters reportedly chased away the miscreants sources said. Bhatpara- Barrackpore region in the North 24 Parganas has of late become a hot spot for crimes with more than a dozen such incidents taking place in the past one year or so.

“They were firing in front of the police but the police were silent,” Singh who was later summoned to the police station but would not turn up said. “The police are investigating the case

and the guilty will soon be brought to book,” Police Commissioner Ajay Thakur said.