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India News: KOLKATA: Though the BJP failed to dislodge Mamata Banerjee from power, the saffron party managed to weather the TMC storm emerging triumphant in 25 of.
Referring to the BJP s protest against political violence in West Bengal after the election results, the former chief minister said, Now they (BJP leaders) are trying to say that violence is happening in Bengal.
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13:16 PM IST: NCP leader Nawab Malik on Bengal violence: No party can support violence but BJP should stop playing politics over it. There was violence even when elections were on. Accountability for that has to be set, but the way BJP is playing politics isn’t good. They can’t threaten people. This isn’t acceptable. Now a new government has been elected and it needs to be allowed to work freely.
Malik adds, Mamata Banerjee had said that opposition unity is important and Sharad Pawar had made attempts before the elections to get all opposition, especially regional parties, together and in the future as well, NCP will make attempts to bring regional parties together for unity.
Opinion: Mamata Is Souring Her Victory With Anti-BJP Violence Opinion: Mamata Is Souring Her Victory With Anti-BJP Violence
Updated: May 04, 2021 2:42 pm IST Bengal exceptionalism was on display on May 2 when Mamata Banerjee returned full-throttle to office for a record third term, beating back a fierce BJP challenge. But the succulence of her victory is being soured by the violence that has broken out since with gruesome killings, houses and shops being set alight and people in many villages fleeing to save their lives. Some would argue that this too is a gruesome display of Bengal exceptionalism (political violence has been endemic in West Bengal for decades during the Left rule, Trinamool terms in power and the recent BJP-versus-Mamata campaign).