While the State BJP leadership eagerly wanted Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh to slam the Trinamool Congress (TMC) for targeting the BJP cadres in the state, most of them went back to the party office deeply disheartened on Tuesday.
Mr Singh, who landed in Kolkata for a day-long trip, addressed a press conference and a political rally in the city but did not target the TMC or its chief Mamata Banerjee.
“In a healthy democracy there is no place for violence, it is the duty of the state government to ensure the security of a party worker, irrespective of his political affiliation,” the Home Minister said refusing to target the TMC, unlike in the past.
However, Mr. Singh mildly raised the issue of repeated recovery of crude bombs, but immediately assured full cooperation to the State government in improving the law and order situation. “I want to assure the State government that whatever assistance it needs for development as well as to improve the law and order situation, the Centre will provide,” said Mr. Singh.
