West Bengal riots: BJP accuses Mamata govt of practising 'appeasement' ; to launch 'Save Bengal' campaign today

New Delhi: Accusing the Mamata Banerjee-led government in West Bengal of practising “politics of appeasement”, the BJP said it would take out a “Save Bengal” march from Raj Ghat in New Delhi from Thursday. [caption id=“attachment_3777353” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] File image of Mamata Banerjee. PTI[/caption] BJP spokesperson Meenakshi Lekhi attacked the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government in Bengal over the recent communal clashes in Basirhat in the North 24 Parganas district, alleging that Banerjee was practising the “two-fold politics of appeasement and repression” in the state. The saffron party had earlier claimed that Hindus were targeted in the Basirhat violence. Lekhi claimed that the Basirhat incident was not an isolated one and referred to similar incidents of communal clashes at Kaliachak and Dhulagarh in West Bengal earlier. The New Delhi MP alleged that the TMC government had also not allowed the immersion of Durga idols in the state on the scheduled day. “What we see in Bengal is a very twisted manner of implementing secularism”, she said at a press meet in Delhi. Lekhi alleged that the Bengal government was not providing the land to the security forces, which was required to seal the border with Bangladesh at a certain place. She said that while the Bengal government “sent back” four of the eight companies of central forces sent by the Union government, claiming that the situation was normal in Basirhat, it did not allow a BJP delegation, which included her, to visit the area. To a question about Banerjee’s attack on the government over a documentary involving Amartya Sen being censored, Lekhi said he was not even an Indian resident.