Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamatha Benarjee accused the BJP resorting to “Drama” to malign her government ahead of assembly elections in 2021. She alleged that the attack on BJP Chief Nadda was staged. She said there would be a police inquiry but questioned if there was a provocation or a conspiracy. She also said the BJP had not asked for security for Nadda, who has Z-category protection.

Speaking to the media persons she said “BJP is creating a new Hindu dharma. It is a hateful dharma. This is how Hitler became who he was. Narendra Modi’s sarkar only creates drama, creates its own incident and presents in video circulates to media and media can’t say anything or question them. Nautanki is going on. They will say Pakistan is attacking us, Nepal, Israel,” said Mamatha.

“Every day they (BJP activists) are coming out (for rallies) with fire arms. They are slapping themselves and blaming it on the Trinamool Congress. Just think of the situation. They are roaming around with the BSF, CRPF, Army, CISF….then why are you so scared?”  The attack comes a day after Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh wrote to the Home Minister raising concerns about Nadda’s security after he was shown black flags in Kolkata yesterday. West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar and Several union ministers condemned the incident.

Amit Shah in a tweet said, “Bengal has descended into an era of tyranny, anarchy and darkness under the Trinamool rule. The manner in which political violence has been institutionalized and brought to the extreme in West Bengal under TMC (Trinamool) rule is sad and worrying.”  “The central government is taking this attack very seriously. The Bengal government will have to answer to the peace-loving people of the state for this sponsored violence,” Amit Shah added.