BJP attempting to repeat Manipur-like situation in Bengal: Mamata

The BJP wishes to create a situation whereby Adivasis will fight Kurmis so that navy could also be known as in and the navy might have shoot-at-sight orders and we gained't have the flexibility to defend, said Mamata.

SALBONI:  West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday alleged that the BJP was attempting to repeat a Manipur-like situation in her state by planning to orchestrate ethnic riots.

She condemned the assault on state minister Birbaha Hansda’s vehicle and claimed that BJP activists, not members of the Kurmi group, had been behind the incident that handed off on Friday.

The feisty TMC boss iterated there’ll doubtless be a change of guard on the Centre throughout the subsequent six months, and “people’s rights will be restored, and politics of hatred will come to an end”.

“The BJP was behind the ethnic violence in Manipur. The saffron party is trying to replicate similar riots between communities in West Bengal. They want to separate the hills from Bengal.”

They want to create a situation whereby Adivasis will fight Kurmis so that navy could also be known as in and the navy might have shoot-at-sight orders and we will not have the flexibility to defend if any individual is shot or killed.

“The BJP is pumping in huge money in the area to foment trouble,” she said at a rally in Salboni in Paschim Medinipur district.

Banerjee said these attempting to fuel ethnic riots throughout the state just isn’t going to be spared.

Earlier this month, ethnic violence between Meiteis and Kukis in Manipur claimed the lives of over 70 people, and 10,000 security forces had been deployed while curfew was imposed and net corporations had been suspended.

The automotive of minister Birbaha Hansda, who may also be the MLA of Jhargram constituency, was attacked by alleged members of the Kurmi group, leaving plenty of TMC activists injured.

The vehicle was part of TMC nationwide regular secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s convoy.

“I condemn yesterday’s violence in which minister Birbaha Hansda’s vehicle was attacked with lathis and stones. She is a proud Adivasi and a state minister. I believe the violence was not a handiwork of the Kurmis. BJP workers disguised as members of the Kurmi community were behind it,” she said whereas addressing TMC’s mass outreach advertising marketing campaign ‘Trinamool e Nabojowar’ (new wave in Trinamool).

She alleged that the BJP was providing money and muscle vitality to fuel ethnic rigidity throughout the house, which was affected by Maoist insurgency a decade once more.

Listing out various developmental duties carried out by the state authorities for the occasion of tribal-inhabited areas throughout the state, the CM said her most necessary achievement was to hold once more peace in Junglemahal space throughout the western part of the state by putting an end to the Maoist insurgency.

Incidentally, the BJP made deep inroads in Bankura, Purulia, Paschim Medinipur and Jhargram districts collectively known as ‘Junglemahal’ (the realm is dwelling to dense forests) throughout the 2019 Lok Sabha and 2021 assembly elections.

The Kurmi group, which is assessed as OBC in West Bengal, staged protests in plenty of districts, along with Dakshin Dinajpur, Purulia, Jhargram and Paschim Medinipur, in April, disrupting railway and freeway guests, to press for the demand for inclusion into the Scheduled Tribe guidelines.

“The Centre has asked me why I haven’t instituted a task force for the NRC (National Register of Citizens) exercise in Bengal. I assure you that I will not let that happen,” she said.

“People of the country have tolerated a lot in the last nine years of the BJP rule at the Centre. But don’t worry, this pain will be over in six months’ time. The Union government is bound to change, and people’s rights will be restored across the country,” she said.

Earlier throughout the day, Banerjee visited Egra house of Purba Medinipur district to fulfill family members of those killed and injured in a blast in an illegal fireworks manufacturing unit there 11 days prior to now.