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The TMC connected Sunday (April 5, 2026) accused the BJP of being progressive successful the unrest successful West Bengal's Malda district, wherever respective judicial officers engaged successful scrutiny of under-adjudication voters were gheraoed recently, and charged Prime Minister Narendra Modi with peddling falsehood connected women's information issues. The ruling party's comments came aft the PM made the Malda gherao of judicial officers the centrepiece of the BJP’s run connected alleged lawlessness successful the state, claiming that it reflected the TMC’s "maha jungle raj”.
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He framed the Assembly polls arsenic a conflict betwixt the “bhay” (fear) allegedly dispersed by the ruling TMC and the BJP’s “bharosa” (trust).
TMC MP Kirti Azad, successful a connection connected X, said, “Modi ji should halt lying…we exposed however your B and C teams were progressive successful Malda violence. From constabulary perceiver to AIMIM person — you deployed your full machinery to make unrest here, and contiguous you are lecturing."
About Mr. Modi’s allegations regarding the information of women successful the State, TMC’s Rajya Sabha MP Sagarika Ghosh said, “We don’t request a lecture from a enactment that is celebrated for shielding and garlanding rapists.”
Senior TMC person and State Education Minister Bratya Basu accused the PM of spreading hatred towards the Bengali language.
Rejecting the TMC's allegations, Union Minister Sukanta Majumdar said the PM had sent retired a wide connection that aft the predetermination results connected May 4, each wrongdoers would look action.
“There volition beryllium nary authorities of intimidation, nary much anarchy oregon lawlessness. This time, West Bengal volition spot justice, regularisation of instrumentality and a unafraid future,” said Mr. Majumdar, besides the erstwhile authorities BJP president.
Addressing his archetypal predetermination rally successful Bengal's Cooch Behar aft the canvass docket was announced, Mr. Modi utilized the Malda incidental to sharpen the BJP's duplicate run planks of deteriorating instrumentality and bid and alleged demographic change.
He besides invoked the Sandeshkhali incident, infiltration from Bangladesh, corruption and unemployment to equine a broadside against the Mamata Banerjee government.
