Two days after five labourers from Bengal were shot dead in Kashmir Valley, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee launched a scathing attack on the BJP for failing to react to the situation alleging people were being killed due to the saffron outfit’s divisive politics.
“Why after such a brutal killing of Bengali labourers in Kashmir there is no word from the BJP,” the Chief Minister told an audience in Kolkata asking “if everyone has right to go and work everywhere in India then why the poor innocent workers from Bengal had to be killed.”
Claiming that Bengali workers had right to go anywhere for work like “those people from other States who come to work in Bengal and live here peacefully,” Banerjee said “it is because of the divisive politics of BJP that India is witnessing violence everywhere.”
“In Bengal there is no lynching, no shootout, no encounter but in other States people are lynched, shot dead and looted,” Banerjee said blaming the BJP for breaking the society. The poor people are the worst sufferers of the divisive politics she said adding when the Centre was closing down public sector units one by one rendering the people jobless “they have to migrate to other places for work,” and so it is the duty of the Government to protect these migrant labouers.
Raising the issue of National Register for Citizens Banerjee said “NRC is a ploy to selectively keepsome people in India and throw others out of the country,” wondering “if they will ask me for my birthcertificate from where will I produce one as I have no such document.”
Her senior Cabinet colleague Firhad Hakim demanded a statement from Amit Shah saying, “the Home Minister owes a statement to the nation and the families of the slain workers. He must explain why VVIPs are given security cover and the common workers from outside states are killed without security.”
Meanwhile, even as the corpse of the slain workers from Murshidabad reached Bengal on Thursday the State Government announced “all possible help” to their families including providing government jobs.