Mamata Banerjee provoked poll violence in Bengal: Amit Shah
Will resign if people want me to, the Union Home Minister said.
West Bengal chief minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee telling people to target Central security forces provoked the clash in Cooch Behar’s Sitalkuchi on Saturday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said today. Shah is in West Bengal on Sunday on various campaigns for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the fifth phase of elections in the state scheduled on April 17.
“Mamata Banerjee asked people to gherao Central forces and that instigated people to attack the CISF (Central Industrial Security Force) in Sitalkuchi. Even now, attempts are being made to politicise the killings,” Shah said at a rally in Santipur on Sunday. “I request the people of Bengal to celebrate the festival of democracy peacefully in the remaining phases,” he said.
On Saturday, Mamata Banerjee demanded his resignation as Home Minister after four persons were killed in police firing at Sitalkuchi in Cooch Behar. She termed the killing “a genocide” adding that the victims were sprayed with bullets that hit their chest and neck, and rules were not followed to target lower part of the body in case of difficult mob control situations which may leave people injured but not dead.
Today, Shah said that he would resign only if people wanted him to resign. “Instead she [Mamata Banerjee] has to resign after the May 2 verdict,” Shah said at another rally in the state.
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