Union home minister Amit Shah on Wednesday launched an all out attack on the Trinamool Congress during a debate in the Lok Sabha, saying the Bharatiya Janata Party wins elections on the basis of ideology, not by killing rivals.
"I want to say that on the basis of our programmes, ideology, popularity of leadership and the performance of our government, we want to fight polls and win everywhere. But we don't want to grab power by killing workers of rival parties, carrying out series of murders, by raping wives and daughters of (rival) party workers. This is not our culture," Shah said in an apparent reference to West Bengal and the ruling TMC there.
Shah's remarks come amid a massive political showdown between the BJP and TMC over the violence in Bengal's Birbhum district where nine people were charred to death. Earlier in the day, a five-member BJP fact-finding committee in its report to party president JP Nadda attributed to the violence to ‘state-sponsored extortion, goonda tax, cut-money, toll bazi'.
“Not even a single officer/constable of West Bengal Police was visible, nobody came to the rescue of the Fact Finding Team when they were attacked and cleared the passage for the committee to visit the scene of offence. Our efforts to contact the DGP and other officers failed,” the report stated.
The BJP has been attacking the TMC, alleging collapse of the law and order machinery in the state and has even demanded the imposition of President's Rule in the state. The Central Bureau of Investigation is currently probing the violence triggered by the murder of TMC panchayat member Bhadu Sheikh.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee slammed the BJP fact-finding committee report, calling it politically motivated. “These are politically motivated reports. I condemn this attitude of the BJP and the central government. When an investigation is on, there should not be any interference from any party. It is an absolute misuse of power,” she alleged.
“Not even a single officer/constable of West Bengal Police was visible, nobody came to the rescue of the Fact Finding Team when they were attacked and cleared the passage for the committee to visit the scene of offence. Our efforts to contact the DGP and other officers failed,” the report stated.
The BJP has been attacking the TMC, alleging collapse of the law and order machinery in the state and has even demanded the imposition of President's Rule in the state. The Central Bureau of Investigation is currently probing the violence triggered by the murder of TMC panchayat member Bhadu Sheikh.
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee slammed the BJP fact-finding committee report, calling it politically motivated. “These are politically motivated reports. I condemn this attitude of the BJP and the central government. When an investigation is on, there should not be any interference from any party. It is an absolute misuse of power,” she alleged.