NEW DELHI: Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday (April 12) alleged that it was West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee who instigated individuals to snatch away the weapons from the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), which led to firing in Cooch Behar on Saturday (April 10) that resulted within the dying of 4 individuals.
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Mamata instigated Cooch Behar violence, claims Home Minister
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Addressing a public assembly within the Dhupguri, Amit Shah mentioned, “The fourth phase polls were held in North Bengal. Didi instigated people and told them to gherao CRPF and loot them. People listened to her, weapons were snatched, bullets were fired and four people died. Didi had you not instigated them they would not have died.”
“A fifth person also died. A youth, Anand Burman had gone to cast his vote but TMC goons shot him dead. Didi is speaking about the four but nothing on Anand Burman. Why? It’s because he belonged to Rajbongshi community that is not a part of her vote bank,” he added.
Amit Shah mentioned Mamata criticising BJP is a futile train. “Didi is abusing BJP unnecessarily. You are mistaken that BJP is contesting against you. It is the mothers, sisters of North Bengal, Rajbongshi community, the Gorkha community, the tea garden workers, the farmers who are contesting against you.”
“If you listen to Didi’s speeches you will find that she talks more about me than she talks about Bengal. Now it is being said ‘Amit Shah resign’. I will resign the day people of Bengal ask me to. But you be ready with your resignation on May 2,” he additional mentioned, including that ‘BJP will kind govt in Bengal will absolute majority’.
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‘NRC may have no influence on Gorkhas’
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Seeking to allay fears created among the many individuals of the hills by Trinamool Congress’s ‘lies’, Amit Shah asserted that the National Register of Citizens (NRC) may have no influence on the Gorkhas. He added that so long as the Narendra Modi-led BJP authorities is there on the Centre, no Gorkha will be harmed.
“NRC has not yet been implemented, but whenever it is done, not a single Gorkha will be asked to leave. The Trinamool Congress is lying about the possible fallout of NRC on the Gorkhas in order to create fear among them,” he mentioned.Â
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‘Mamata govt behind deaths of many Gorkhas’
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The Home Minister alleged that the Mamata Banerjee-led authorities in Bengal has additionally been accountable for deaths of many Gorkhas in latest instances. “We will form an SIT and send those responsible for the wrongdoings behind bars,” Shah mentioned amid chants of ‘Jai Shri Ram’ and ‘Jai Gorkha’. Darjeeling and its adjoining areas had been rocked by actions and protests, which at instances turned violent, in favour of a separate Gorkhaland in 1986 and in 2017.
Meanwhile, the meeting election for the primary 4 phases in West Bengal have been carried out. The fifth and sixth phases of the continuing elections will happen on April 17 and April 22. Counting of votes will happen on May 2.Â
Violence erupted at a polling sales space in Cooch Behar in the course of the fourth spherical of polling on Saturday. The ruling TMC alleged that Central Forces opened hearth twice at polling cubicles in Cooch Behar the place individuals had been casting their votes. Official sources in Cooch Behar had earlier confirmed the dying of 4 individuals in firing. Amit Shah can be scheduled to conduct a roadshow in Siliguri on Monday (April 12).
