Malda: BJP poses five questions to Mamata Banerjee
BJP senior leader Siddharth Nath Singh on Monday indicated that Kaliachak police station was attacked to destroy records about opium farming and fake currency racket in the area.
According to media reports, Singh has also said that the delegation to Malda will meet President Pranab Mukherjee and Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh after returning to Delhi.
Aluwahlia told reporters that police stopped them at the Malda Railway station as they were about to enter the town. The were told to leave the place as there were prohibitory orders in Kaliachak.
They were reportedly forced to take a train back to Kolkata.
Violence erupted in Malda district on Jan 3 when more than a lakh people gathered under the banner of a little known organisation of Muslims protesting against comments about the Prophet Mohammad allegedly made by Akhil Bharatiya Hindu Mahasabha leader Kamlesh Tiwari, who is now in a Lucknow jail.
The protesters, some of whom were allegedly armed, ransacked a Border Security Force (BSF) jeep, attacked a police station and burnt cars. The mob also barricaded a national highway.
The BJP has accused the state's ruling Trinamool Congress of protecting those behind the violence.
However, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee has said the violence was not communal but a clash between local people and the BSF.
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