This BJP MLA spews hate, wants Hindus in Bengal to respond like they did in Gujarat

NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing tension in West Bengal's Baduria and Basirhat districts, Bharatiya Janata Party MLA H Raja Singh waded in controversy by appealing to the Hindu community in the state to respond the way Hindus in Gujarat reacted in 2002. "Today, Hindus are not safe in the West Bengal state. Hindus in Bengal should respond to people involved in communal violence as Hindus in Gujarat did. Otherwise, soon Bengal will turn into Bangladesh." Singh said. He also blamed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Government for ongoing tensions in the state by alleging that the latter is supporting those who are spreading communalism. "The state government is supporting those who are spreading communalism. I want to appeal to those who are secular that if you want Bengal's Hindus to be safe and secure then you have to be more aware. If you failed to attain security in the state then you will also face the consequences like Hindus in Kashmir faced, will also be banished like Kashmiri Hindus," he added. Meanwhile,  Mamata Banerjee had set up a judicial commission to probe clashes in Basirhat and Baduria that were triggered by a Facebook post and then escalated. Officials described the judicial probe as the first step that sets the stage for possible stringent action. Mamata blamed the BJP-led Centre for the violence that started on June 30 and spread rapidly. "The Centre controls the borders, not the state government. I want to know how some miscreants crossed the border and created trouble here," she said. The chief minister said the administrative inputs received by the state government would be passed on to the judicial commission so that the actual culprits could be punished. The Mamata government also transferred several police officers who have had a role in handling the affairs in North 24-Parganas where Baduria and Basirhat are located. In a series of transfers in the police administration, Ajay Ranade, IG (south Bengal), and Gangeswar Singh, ADG (IB), were transferred along with Bhaskar Mukherjee, the police superintendent of North 24-Parganas. Tanmoy Chaudhuri, deputy director of the economic offences wing, has been posted to supervise the work of the North 24-Parganas police superintendent. "The move is quite unusual but Chaudhuri is a former SP of the district and he can guide the new SP for now," said a source. (With inputs from ANI)