Kolkata, March 9 Alleging that the BJP and "its agencies" were distributing leaflets at the site of her sit-in protest in Kolkata, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday directed TMC workers to apprehend them and hand them over to the police.
Following Banerjee's direction from the stage of her three-day sit-in demonstration at Dharmatala over the SIR exercise, police said they had detained two people who were distributing leaflets publicizing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's March 14 rally in Kolkata.
"The BJP and its agencies are distributing leaflets at our meeting. They have no right to distribute such leaflets at the programme of another political party," Banerjee said.
"How can they campaign for their programme at our meeting? This is not done. Catch them and hand them over to the police before they escape. I am asking minister Sashi Panja to file an FIR immediately," she added.
Banerjee said the BJP was resorting to such "unfair tactics" because their meetings were not receiving a strong response.
"Only those who have no support can stoop so low. They don't have the support of the people. They are 'vote thieves'. They use agencies," she alleged.
Banerjee said such "cowards" "should hang themselves".
Dismissing the allegations, BJP leader Rahul Sinha said the party does not need to send its members to TMC's programmes as Prime Minister Modi's rally "will be historic".
"TMC itself has deployed its people to distribute leaflets about Prime Minister Modi's programme, as the sit-in protest is not receiving a strong response from the people of Bengal. She is desperate and frustrated," he claimed.
