Amid West Bengal violence, Trinamool cites ‘evidence’ against BJP 

Derek O’Brien.

New Delhi: A day after BJP and Trinamool Congress workers engaged in violent clashes during Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah’s road show in Kolkata, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress has claimed to have “irrefutable evidence” that BJP is responsible for the violence in rally. During the violence, on Tuesday, the Vidyasagar College in the city was vandalized, in which the bust of the Bengal icon Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar was destroyed.

On being questioned about BJP president Amit Shah’s accusation that TMC has staged the event to malign his party, senior TMC leader Derek O’Brien said, “Amit Shah is a pathological liar ... He did not have a fig leaf to do his press conference. Let him dispute my videos,” and added, “You have to understand the depth of what happened. This is Iswarchandra Vidyasagar. Bicentenary four weeks from now.”

The party claims to have videos that show BJP goons jumped over the railing of the Vidyasagar College and initiated the violence by vandalizing the statue.

At a news conference on Wednesday morning, the party had presented two of the videos showing men, some of them dressed in saffron, smashing the bust.

Protesting against the vandalization of the Vidyasagar bust, TMC leaders also changed their social-media profile photos with a portrait of Vidyasagar. 

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