Launching a scathing attack on the BJP, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Saturday that the BJP leaders were “men of riots.”
Addressing a rally organised by the TMC’s minority cell to observe “Babri Masjid demolition day,” she slammed the BJP for playing communal politics and said, “The Lotus party only loves the Lotus religion and spews out venom about all other religions.”
While Mamata was not scheduled to attend the meeting, she sprung a surprise by cancelling prior commitments and reaching the venue. “I was not scheduled to attend this meeting as I had some other programmes. But I could not resist myself from attending this meeting. So I came here to speak to you,” she said.
Reiterating her stand on the NIA investigation into the Burdwan blast, Mamata said, “These people are destroying the communal harmony here. They are arresting people from here and there and then they are labelling them as terrorist. They are terming all the madrasas as terror centre … Who are these people? They have spent their whole life instigating communal violence and riots. They are made of riots from head to toe and kidney to liver,” she said.
Saying that criminals do not have any religion she said, “The criminals should be punished. But one should not blame an entire community for one person’s crime. In Bengal, we have our minority brothers, who are 30% of the total population. We have to look after them and we are always with them.” Her remarks at the meeting came at a time when the people from minority community in the state were reportedly started joining the BJP.
