It's a planned genocide: West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Delhi violence

NEW DELHI: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said that Delhi riots were a “planned genocide.”

While addressing an event at Netaji Indoor Stadium in Kolkata she said,"We are sad, and criticize what happened in Delhi. Is it a riot? It's a planned genocide and later it was called communal. Everyday bodies coming out of drains.”

With four bodies discovered, the toll in Delhi has risen to 46.

The words come right after Home Minister Amit Shah had claimed that BJP will get two-thirds majority in Bengal assembly poll.

“Before the Lok Sabha polls, Mamata didi used to say our candidates will lose their deposits. But for the first time, we won 18 of the 42 seats in the state. Mamata didi can see the figures. In the coming assembly polls also, the BJP will get an absolute majority… a two-thirds majority and form the government,” the senior BJP leader said addressing his first public rally in Bengal after the last year’s general elections. Shah said he has seen a lot of political changes in his public career.

It is important to note that in 2019, the Kolkata Police had registered an FIR against Shah in connection with the violence that took place in West Bengal capital during his roadshow.

During a road show of Amit Shah on Tuesday, BJP and TMC supporters fought pitched battles on the streets of Kolkata but Shah escaped unhurt but was forced to cut short the jamboree and had to be escorted to safety by police.

It has been alleged that TMC supporters of Vidyasagar College pelted stones in the convoy of the BJP President after which the city plunged into a welter of violence triggering a clash between the supporters of the two parties.

Several motorcycles which were parked outside the college were vandalized and set ablaze and shards of broken glass littered the lobby of the college where a bust of noted philosopher and a key figure of Bengal Renaissance Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was smashed to smithereens.

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