Harirampur (WB), April 3 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday blamed the AIMIM and ISF for the siege of judicial officers in Malda district and accused the Congress and the BJP of instigation.
Stating that the mastermind behind Wednesday's several-hour siege of judicial officers in Mothabari, Malda district, had been arrested by the state's CID, Banerjee claimed that this police organization is still under her control, not the Election Commission.
"The BJP had borrowed him (the accused) from the AIMIM and brought him here," she alleged, while addressing an election rally in Harirampur, Dakshin Dinajpur district.
"ISF is with them; Congress and BJP have also provided instigation," the Trinamool Congress chief alleged, while stating that the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested the main accused, advocate Mofakkarul Islam, from Bagdogra airport when he was trying to flee.
"It is they who engineered the violence in Malda's Mothabari," she said.
She questioned why the assembly elections cannot be conducted using the same electoral rolls that were used in the 2024 general elections.
"If the voter list contained names of infiltrators, Modi also won with their votes earlier, so he should resign first," she said.
"Money is being brought in using CRPF vehicles," she alleged, claiming that she knows where these were going.
"I have a record of these movements and will expose them at the appropriate time," she said.
Banerjee said that the presence of Union Home Minister Amit Shah in West Bengal during the polls will lead to a reduction in the BJP's vote share.
Shah has said that he would camp in West Bengal during the elections.