West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is trying to shield the accused in the Bardhaman blast case, Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah said here on Sunday.
Addressing an Utthan Diwas (Day of Rising) function of the party, he accused Ms. Banerjee of “toying with national security” for the sake of vote-bank and trying to block the National Investigation Agency (NIA) investigation into the case by raising questions of federalism.
The Trinamool Congress rubbished Mr. Shah’s allegation.
The BJP leader said many Trinamool leaders were involved in the case. “Who is Ms. Banerjee trying to shield? She has to tell the people of Bengal who is Nurul Hassan Chowdhury [known to be a Trinamool supporter at Khagragarh in Bardhaman] in whose house the blast took place,” Mr. Shah said.
Mr. Shah cautioned Ms. Banerjee against “depending on Bangladeshi infiltrators” to save her partyHe also alleged that Ms. Banerjee had tried to stall the NIA probe by raising the issue of federalism.
Making it clear that coming to power in West Bengal in the 2016 Assembly election was a priority for the BJP, Mr. Shah urged the people of West Bengal to “uproot” the Trinamool in the Kolkata Municipal Corporation election early next year.
