Mamata: Even if a chocolate bomb explodes in Bengal, agencies like CBI, NIA & NSG are sent

Questioning the rationale behind deploying National Security Guard (NSG) for recovery of “ordinary firecrackers” in Sandeshkhali in North 24-Parganas, Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee on Saturday launched a vitriolic attack on the Narendra Modiled government at the Centre and the BJP over the joint operations of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and NSG.

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Banerjee also attacked the BJP’s Asansol Lok Sabha candidate SS Ahluwalia asking as to why the latter kept mum when his party leader Suvendu Adhikari branded an IPS officer as “Khalistani”.

She was addressing an election rally in Kulti in support of her party’s Asansol candidate Shatrughan Sinha.

Referring to the joint raid, Banerjee alleged that the joint operation could have been planted by the BJP and the recovered items could have been brought to the spot by the Central agencies.

“Even if a chocolate bomb explodes in Bengal, the agencies like CBI, NIA and NSG are It’s as if there is a war going on. This is one-sided as the state police force wasn’t informed. Nobody knows where it was recovered from — maybe it was brought from their own car and presented as recovered items. There is no evidence to show it was found here. It could have been anywhere”, Banerjee said.