Both the TMC and RSS blame it on ‘cattle-smuggling jehadis’
On the sixth day of the communal flare up in Baduria and Basirhat, a spearedthroughthe middle flex hoarding of Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee aling for harmony, was still standing amid the gutted remains of shops, police vehicles and a palpable sense of fear.
Mahmud Ali Ghazi’s medicine shop—one of the 14 torched at the Bank of India building in Basirhat’s Trimonihaat area—is charred beyond repair. A short distance away, Banerjee Babu’s popular tea stall looked equally ravaged. A mob—mostly outsiders, he says—looted the place even as the police personnel stood and watched.
An objectionable Facebook post by a Class IX student in Baduria, a neighbouring town, was said to have sparked off the violence that continued unabated for a week from July 3 night, resulting in one death.
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