Super emergency in the country: Mamata on detention of TMC delegation in Assam
Kolkata, Aug 2 (IBNS): Reacting to the detention of a Trinamool Congress (TMC) delegation on the NRC impact in Assam at Silchar airport, party supremo and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday launched an unsparing attack against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), saying the saffron outfit is running a super emergency in the country.
Mamata's reaction came following the detention of the TMC delegation, which flew to Assam on Thursday to review the situation in the state after over four million people were excluded from the northeastern state's final draft of the National Register of Citizen (NRC).
Interacting with media at the Dum Dum airport, an irate Mamata said: "The BJP government is showing its muscles. Super emergency is going on in the country."
The delegation comprises West Bengal Minister Firhad Hakim, party MPs Sukhendu Sekhar Ray, Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, Ratna De Nag, Nadimul Haque, Arpita Ghosh and Mamata Thakur and MLA Mahua Moitra.
Reports said the TMC leaders were stopped from exiting the airport after they had landed.
The TMC MPs alleged that they were beaten up. A video of a scuffle also surfaced from the airport.
Condemning the incident after flying back to Kolkata, the TMC supremo called the incident "barbaric".
Mamata, who was in the national capital for last three days, said she had received an assurance from Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh that no one will be harassed if a delegation visits Assam.
The Chief Minister feels the situation in Assam might not be normal. "If everything is peaceful in Assam, why they are behaving so rude? It is their way to suppress real facts."
"The people in Assam are panicking. The BJP government is exposed now. This is the beginning of the end of the BJP. They are politically frustrated and depressed so they are using muscle power. "
The incident has its genesis in the publication of the second and final draft of Assam's NRC, which was released on July 30.
The ruling BJP faced wrath from several opposition parties with Mamata even accusing the saffron outfit of leading to a situation of "civil war and bloodbath". Her remarks led to the filing of an FIR in Assam by the BJP youth wing.
BJP's General Secretary in-charge Kailash Vijayvargiya and state party president Dilip Ghosh also said the NRC can also be done in West Bengal.
A delegation of the BJP even went to meet West Bengal Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi demanding the NRC in the state.
Sending a tough message to the BJP over the NRC in West Bengal, Mamata said: "Let them touch Bengal."
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