BJP says ‘attack on MP Jagannath Sarkar in Bengal shows TMC is scared’

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has taken a dig at the Trinamool Congress (TMC) over the alleged attack on BJP MP Jagannath Sarkar. BJP’s candidate for Ballygunge Assembly by-elections Keya Ghosh told news agency ANI that the attack “shows that TMC candidates are scared that they will lag behind in polls”. She further demanded the deployment of Central forces. TMC, however, has not yet commented on this incident.

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Lok Sabha member from BJP Jagannath Sarkar on Saturday alleged a bomb was hurled at his car when he was travelling in West Bengal’s Nadia district. The MP was returning after watching the film ‘The Kashmir Files’. According to him, he escaped as the bomb landed behind the car.

“I was returning after watching ‘The Kashmir Files’. A bomb was hurled at my car on my way back, we escaped it narrowly. We pulled out the car a little far to see. Police came after 10 minutes,” Jagannath Sarkar narrated, as quoted by news agency ANI.

Slamming the Mamata Banerjee government, he said that the law and order in the state has deteriorated. He further demanded a President’s rule in the state. “No one is secure in Bengal as the law and order situation has worsened in the state. Democracy has been toppled by the state government. Article 356 (President’s rule) should be imposed to prevent the prevailing situation in the state. Otherwise, it won’t stop,” he told ANI.

‘The Kashmir Files’ is based on the exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from Jammu and Kashmir. Featuring Anupam Kher, Mithun Chakraborty and Pallavi Joshi, the film has entered the 100-crore club mark. The Vivek Agnihotri film has been made tax-free in several BJP-led states including Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Gujarat, Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also praised this film.

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