A three-member delegation of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) formed to assess situation in Malda, was detained at a railway station in the violence-hit district in West Bengal on Monday morning and has been sent back to Kolkata. The delegation was to travel to Kaliachak in Malda where violence had broken out on Sunday over an alleged remark of a BJP leader. Section 144 has been imposed in the area.
The BJP leaders have maintained that they had come to the violence-hit district not to destabilize but to help the situation but no heed was paid to their appeals. "What the West Bengal government is doing by sending us back is condemnable," a team member said.
"We are law-abiding citizens, we are here to console people and to restore the trust of people and not to incite any violence," team member SS Ahluwalia said. The BJP has been claiming that they have the right to know what went wrong with the statements that led to such violence.
The BJP has set up the three-member fact-finding team, that was scheduled to visit Malda in West Bengal on Monday where communal violence had erupted last Sunday following the alleged blasphemous comments by a right wing leader.
The three-member fact-finding team, set up by BJP President Amit Shah, is being headed by party national general secretary and Member of Parliament Bhupender Yadav. Party MPs SS Ahluwalia and BD Ram, who is a retired director general of Police, are the two other members of the team.
The fact-finding team had to submit its report to Shah after visiting the violence-hit area. Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh is likely to visit Malda district on January 18.
On January 3, a mob protesting against the alleged blasphemous comments by a right wing leader had resorted to violence in Malda district during which a police station was also attacked.
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