On a day when Mamata Banerjee swore in as the Chief Minister for the third consecutive term, BJP national president on Wednesday attacked her for provoking violence in the State alleging “she is one Chief Minister whose hands are smeared in blood” of the Opposition workers.
Nadda, who visited the houses of slain and attacked party men in North 24 Parganas, said, “The BJP condemns Mamata Banerjee’s coming to power through bloodshed … she has blood in her hands.”
Alleging that the “massacre of opposition workers particularly the BJP men are pre-planned and is being carried out with a definite design …it reminds of the call for ‘direct action’” just before the Independence, he said “when our workers were being beaten, killed and their
houses were being looted the Chief Minister was sitting silent …despite the fact that she had won the elections and was absolutely in control … she was watched things happening for three consecutive days.”
The Trinamool leadership however rejected the BJP’s claims even as its senior Minister Firhad Hakim said that the violence was the result of the provocative politics that the saffron outfit started in Bengal adding however that “the Government is in control and ensure that no violence takes place… this is not Gujarat or UP.”
The BJP leadership on Wednesday staged a dharna in front of its State party office at Muralidhar Sen Lane in North Kolkata.
“We shall fight this out democratically,” Nadda said adding “the BJP will root out the TMC from Bengal one day.”
The party on Wednesday started a helpline for the attacked and evicted workers.