Kolkata, April 5 Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack on the TMC on Sunday over the Malda incident, in which judicial officers were surrounded by a mob for hours, calling it an example of the ruling party's "rampant lawlessness" and alleging that the state's ruling party was determined to "parade the death of law and order" in Bengal.
Addressing his first election rally in the Cooch Behar district after the announcement of polls last month, Modi said the entire country had seen how judicial officers were held hostage in Malda, and asked what kind of government could not ensure the safety of judges and constitutional procedures.
"We cannot expect such a government to keep the people of Bengal safe," he said.
"When even judicial officers are not safe, how can you expect that common people will be safe under TMC rule? What happened in Malda is an example of TMC's rampant lawlessness," Modi said.
In a broadside against the Mamata Banerjee government, Modi alleged that the TMC government does not consider any constitutional institution to be significant.
"Democracy is bleeding every day on the sacred soil of Bengal under the ruthless TMC administration," the Prime Minister asserted.
The situation here is so bad that the Supreme Court had to intervene, Modi said, alleging that the TMC is hell-bent on "murdering law and order".
The remarks came days after seven judicial officers, including three women, were surrounded inside the Kaliachak-II Block Development Office in Malda district for several hours by protesters over the alleged deletion of names from electoral rolls during the SIR exercise.
Using the Malda incident to sharpen the BJP's attack on the ruling party, Modi alleged that the TMC government had endangered the future and identity of Bengal through appeasement politics and infiltration.
"Under the TMC rule, there has been a dangerous demographic change in Bengal's border areas. These infiltrators get direct protection from the TMC's syndicate, thus putting the lives of the state's people under threat," he alleged.
The PM also charged the TMC with opposing the Citizenship (Amendment) Act and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise to protect infiltrators.
