Attacking on TMC chief Mamata Banerjee over increasing number of incidents of political violence in the state. Shah alleged that Mamata Benerjee has made ‘Bangal ko kangal’.
Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah during his West Bengal visit on Thursday said that the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) would be implemented after the Covid pandemic comes to an end. He said that the Trinamool Congress is spreading lies that the CAA will not be implemented but it will be implemented once pandemic will over.
Attacking on TMC chief Mamata Banerjee over increasing number of incidents of political violence in the state. Shah alleged that Mamata Benerjee has made ‘Bangal ko kangal’.
Shah said, “we accepted people’s mandate to Mamata for the third time. Don’t think BJP will not fight. I want to say BJP will continue their fight.” He told that party workers not to be afraid as nobody can stop the BJP’s march to Bengal. Taking dig at Mamata for sending TMC delegation to different states and asked “why did you not send a delegation to Birbhum and Hanshkhali?”.
In the first of April, a 14-year-old girl died after she was allegedly gangraped by the son of a panchayat member, who is known for his allegiance to the ruling TMC, and others, in the state’s Nadia district. Later, while speaking at an event, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had cast her doubt on the case and had sought to know if she was raped or was she already pregnant.
Banerjee had also said that the girl was allegedly in a relationship with the accused. She further accuses the Opposition and the media of giving the incident a political twist. While Brajgopal Goala (21), the son of Samar Goala, a member of the local gram panchayat, was already arrested, his friend and a co-accused in the case was held on Tuesday.
In mid-April, Calcutta High Court transferred the investigation into the Hanskhali gangrape and murder case in West Bengal to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and asked the agency to file a progress report on the investigation in the next date of hearing, May 2.