Raising the scale of its offensive against the Mamata Banerjee Government over the controversial Malda violence, BJP leaders on Saturday met President Pranab Mukherjee and sought an independent report from the Governor on the issue.
The party accused the Mamata Banerjee Government in West Bengal of promoting vote-bank politics by protecting those involved in Malda violence and said that it posed a threat to national security.
A BJP delegation, led by party general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya and other Central and State leaders, met the President and submitted a memorandum. BJP Secretary Siddhharth Nath Singh and West Bengal BJP president Dilip Ghosh and former State president Rahul Sinha were also part of the delegation.
“On 3rd of January 2016 at Kailiachak in the district of Malda, West Bengal, witnessed the worst form of vote bank politics which compromised the national security of India. On one hand, the TMC Government on the pretext to maintain communal harmony stopped the BJP delegation twice, whereas, on the other hand the State Government allowed a fundamentalist religious organisation Edara - e- Sharia to organise, on communal lines, a gathering of over two lakh people,” said the BJP memorandum.
“Media is linking three MPs to Edara-e-Sharia - Gulam Rasool of (JDU), Idrish Ali and Imran Ahmed of TMC. Should their role not be investigated along with Edara-e- Sharia,” the memorandum sought to ask.
The BJP leaders also raised the issue of violence in Birbhum in West Bengal. The delegation also presented another memorandum to the President on the inaction on the part of WB Government in arresting the accused in the hit-and-run case involving the son of a TMC leader who killed an Air Force jawan while he was rehearsing for the R-Day parade in Kolkata.
“The Malda incident is linked to the country’s internal security... This vote bank politics poses a threat to internal security as the same mob also raised pro-Pakistan slogans. That is why we have requested the President to seek his own report from the Governor and the report sought by the Central Government from the State will help stop the threat caused to the country’s internal security,” said Vijayvargiya.
told reporters after meeting the President.
He said the BJP is pained to know the West Bengal chief minister saying people had problems with BSF and that is why the violence took place.
“Why was the police station burntIJ The reality is that it was burnt as all those leading that violent clash are linked with fake currency and opium cultivation and are anti-social elements who burnt the police station to put an end to their criminal activities”, the BJP leader said.
“Unfortunately, all those are being protected by Mamata Banerjee. A number of TMC leaders are involved in such activities and there is vote bank politics played there. The minority community there is somewhere linked in all these three incidents and due to this vote bank politics, the West Bengal chief minister is not acting against them,” he added.