‘Dushasan’ in Bengal: Mamata targets Shah over national security

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee attacked Union Home Minister Amit Shah, likening him to ‘Dushasan’ and demanding his resignation over alleged failure to curb subversive activities. She rejected accusations on infiltration, accusing the Centre of unfairly targeting Bengal ahead of Assembly elections

Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday described Union Home Minister Amit Shah as ‘Dushasan’ without naming him, and demanded his resignation, accusing him of failing to prevent subversive activities in the country.

Banerjee also questioned Shah, who reached Kolkata on a three-day visit to West Bengal on Monday, why this State is being blamed all the time for infiltration when a terror attack had happened in Jammu and Kashmir, and a blast took place in New Delhi.

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The elections for the 294-seat Assembly in the State are due early next year.

“Dushasan has come to Bengal. Whenever elections are around, Duryodhan and Dushasan arrive here,” the Chief Minister said, without naming anyone, while addressing a public meeting at Barjora in Bankura district.

The Trinamool Congress supremo also criticised Shah over the issue of infiltration, questioning the Centre’s handling of national security.

“Does infiltration happen only in Bengal? Doesn’t it happen in Kashmir?” she said, referring to the terror attack in Pahalgam.

She also raised the issue of a car explosion in the national capital. “An incident took place in Delhi some days ago. Are infiltrators present nowhere except Bengal? So, was it you who did it?” Banerjee questioned why West Bengal was being blamed for everything.

The TMC chief asserted that the BJP would be politically rejected, declaring, “You are saying you will win with a two-thirds majority. This time you are not saying, ‘Ab ki baar, 200 paar.’ I want to say, this time you should be out of the country.” Banerjee further claimed that her party would return to power in West Bengal and take on the BJP at the national level through democratic means.