Kolkata: The recovery of arms and ammunition at several places in West Bengal's Sandeshkhali on Friday sparked a war of words between the Trinamool Congress and the BJP, with the ruling party alleging that the saffron camp was hatching a conspiracy to defame the state during the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. Used to be. Assembly elections.
The BJP immediately hit back, accusing the TMC of protecting terrorists and having a tacit understanding with anti-national elements.
The CBI seized arms and ammunition, including foreign-made firearms, during search operations at several locations in Sandeshkhali in connection with the attack on an Enforcement Directorate team by a mob allegedly instigated by suspended TMC leader Shahjahan Shaikh in January, officials said. Seized.
Teams from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), bomb disposal squad, National Security Guard (NSG), central paramilitary force and West Bengal Police were part of the search operation in the village in the river delta. In Sunderbans of North 24 Parganas district."We don't know what has been recovered or not. We have doubts on whatever the CBI is saying. The case should be properly investigated. The BJP is using central agencies to defame us. This is BJP's Could be a scary move." TMC state general secretary Kunal Ghosh said it could be a well-intentioned campaign by the BJP to defame us during the elections.
During the search, the CBI seized three foreign made revolvers and foreign made pistols, one Indian revolver, one Colt official issue police revolver, one country made pistol, 120 nine mm bullets, 50 cartridges of .4 calibre, 120 nine. mm cartridges, 50 cartridges of .380 and eight cartridges of .32, the spokesperson said.
Senior BJP leader Amit Malviya said the arms embargo is nothing but an act of terrorism, which is waging a war against the country.
“CBI recovered huge quantity of arms and ammunition from Sariberiya, Sandeshkhali during raid in connection with attack on ED officials. Mamata Banerjee, as the Home Minister of West Bengal, should explain that huge amount of arms and ammunition is in the state. Why is ammunition being seen?“Illegal weapons,” he posted on X.
"This is dangerous. NSG has been deployed, but the West Bengal government has approached the Supreme Court to stop the CBI from investigating the case," he said.
BJP state spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya said TMC's appeasement politics had given a free hand to "anti-national elements" in the state.
The search was initiated in connection with three FIRs that the CBI had registered on January 5 related to the attack on the Enforcement Directorate (ED officials) team at Sandeshkhali when it raided Shaikh's premises in connection with the alleged ration scam. Had gone to kill..
The BJP immediately hit back, accusing the TMC of protecting terrorists and having a tacit understanding with anti-national elements.
The CBI seized arms and ammunition, including foreign-made firearms, during search operations at several locations in Sandeshkhali in connection with the attack on an Enforcement Directorate team by a mob allegedly instigated by suspended TMC leader Shahjahan Shaikh in January, officials said. Seized.
Teams from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), bomb disposal squad, National Security Guard (NSG), central paramilitary force and West Bengal Police were part of the search operation in the village in the river delta. In Sunderbans of North 24 Parganas district."We don't know what has been recovered or not. We have doubts on whatever the CBI is saying. The case should be properly investigated. The BJP is using central agencies to defame us. This is BJP's Could be a scary move." TMC state general secretary Kunal Ghosh said it could be a well-intentioned campaign by the BJP to defame us during the elections.
During the search, the CBI seized three foreign made revolvers and foreign made pistols, one Indian revolver, one Colt official issue police revolver, one country made pistol, 120 nine mm bullets, 50 cartridges of .4 calibre, 120 nine. mm cartridges, 50 cartridges of .380 and eight cartridges of .32, the spokesperson said.
Senior BJP leader Amit Malviya said the arms embargo is nothing but an act of terrorism, which is waging a war against the country.
“CBI recovered huge quantity of arms and ammunition from Sariberiya, Sandeshkhali during raid in connection with attack on ED officials. Mamata Banerjee, as the Home Minister of West Bengal, should explain that huge amount of arms and ammunition is in the state. Why is ammunition being seen?“Illegal weapons,” he posted on X.
"This is dangerous. NSG has been deployed, but the West Bengal government has approached the Supreme Court to stop the CBI from investigating the case," he said.
BJP state spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya said TMC's appeasement politics had given a free hand to "anti-national elements" in the state.
The search was initiated in connection with three FIRs that the CBI had registered on January 5 related to the attack on the Enforcement Directorate (ED officials) team at Sandeshkhali when it raided Shaikh's premises in connection with the alleged ration scam. Had gone to kill..
