Bengal BJP slams TMC over child attack video ‘plot’
Times of India | 30 July 2025
Kolkata: A day after Delhi Police refuted charges of a toddler and his mother being harassed in the capital, Bengal BJP on Tuesday hit out at Trinamool's "plot to further its political agenda".
"It is unfortunate that Delhi Police is refuting the post made by the chief minister. It was a very weak script by Trinamool to malign others in the name of attack on Bengali migrant workers. This video clearly states that the allegations of harassment of Bengali migrant workers are fabricated," Bengal BJP president Samik Bhattacharya said.
BJP's Bengal minder Amit Malviya, in a post on X, tried to link infiltration in Bengal with "foreign-funded lobbies and NGOs hostile to India". While charging govt with "enabling infiltration of illegal Bangladeshi Muslims and Rohingya", Malviya said the state machinery was "shielding them for vote-bank politics".
"We expected more mature politics from the CM. The way a kid was used by Trinamool to further its political agenda is shocking. Such plots will be created in the future too, and people of Bengal will be hoodwinked," junior Union minister Sukanta Majumdar said.
BJP MP Soumendu Adhikari, state leader of opposition Suvendu Adhikari's brother, filed a complaint alleging that it was a fake video. In the complaint, he alleged that CM Mamata Banerjee was "wantonly giving provocation with intent to cause riot" by posting the video of a kid and her mother from Chachal in Malda. Banerjee, in her post, had alleged that the kid was beaten up by police.
Meanwhile, alleging that Banerjee was attempting to "intimidate" booth level officers (BLOs), Adhikari on Tuesday urged EC to take cognizance of the matter and ensure the integrity of the electoral process.
In a letter to CEC Gyanesh Kumar, Adhikari alleged that Banerjee had made public statements that constituted a "direct and unwarranted interference" in the duties of BLOs and the broader electoral framework overseen by the EC.