‘They want to divide us’: Mamata attacks BJP, RSS, urges people to maintain peace

West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee.
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Alleging that the BJP and the RSS initiated a “vicious false marketing campaign” in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday (April 19, 2025) urged the people to maintain peace, and acknowledged that almost all and the minority communities should handle one another.

Referring to the violence in Murshidabad, Ms. Banerjee mentioned “these forces” had been utilizing the backdrop of “an unlucky incident” that occurred “on provocation” to play divisive politics.

“BJP and its allies have immediately turn out to be very aggressive in West Bengal. These allies embrace RSS. I’ve not taken the RSS’s identify earlier, however I’m being compelled now to determine them. Collectively, all of them have initiated a vicious false marketing campaign within the State,” she alleged within the open letter, which was made public late within the night time.

“These forces are utilizing the backdrop of an unlucky incident that occurred on provocation. They’re utilizing the backdrop to play divisive politics. They’re planning to play the ‘divide and rule’ sport. That is sinister,” she added.

Asserting that the “criminals” behind the riots are being strongly handled, Ms. Banerjee mentioned that on the identical time “mutual distrust and mistrust” have to be averted.

“The bulk and the minority communities should work collectively and handle one another,” she mentioned.

“That they had initially deliberate to use the Ram Navami day for taking part in with fireplace, however the Ram Navami celebrations in West Bengal have been most peaceable. Then they tried to use some subsequent issues relating to the agitations towards the Waqf (Modification) Act,” she alleged.

Urging people not to belief the BJP and its allies, she alleged that they want to incite riots.

“…riots can have an effect on everybody. We love all. We want to keep collectively. We condemn riots. We’re towards riots. They want to divide us for some slim electoral politics,” she mentioned.

The CM mentioned she has taken “sturdy actions” for sustaining legislation and order and saving human lives and dignity.

“Two police officers-in-charge have been eliminated. Police is investigating. Additional actions are being taken. Please keep in mind that riots are created neither by Hindus, nor by Muslims, riots are engineered by criminals. Strict actions can be taken towards all criminals. Nobody can be spared,” she mentioned.

Ms. Banerjee claimed that protest rallies should not allowed within the BJP-ruled U.P., Bihar, M.P. and Rajasthan, however no such anti-Constitutional dispensation is there in West Bengal.

“Once they use bulldozers in U.P., agony comes. In distinction, in West Bengal, when somebody suffers, we assist. That’s our strategy in West Bengal. No neighborhood can be disturbed or adversely affected in West Bengal. We strongly condemn such disturbances,” she mentioned.

“Those that create riots all the time come from exterior after which go away. We from inside have to now struggle towards their unhealthy deeds. We will collectively survive and win,” she mentioned.

Ms. Banerjee mentioned her “detractors”, the BJP, want to divert people’s consideration from the burning downside of value rise, and therefore they’ve taken recourse to “inflammatory propaganda”.

“Jealousy has no remedy. The jealous can’t transcend their slim imaginative and prescient. Our detractors don’t want employment, improvement, creativity – their solely curiosity is to guarantee value rise, to improve prices of medicines, hospital costs and insurance coverage premium, to improve the worth of petrol, diesel and even home cooking fuel,” she mentioned.

“Lastly, my enchantment to everybody once more is: keep calm, keep united. Don’t give in to distrust and mistrust. Don’t be diverted by their false communal rhetoric,” she mentioned.

Three people had been killed, a number of others injured, and quite a few properties had been vandalised throughout protests over the Waqf (Modification) Act in Murshidabad final week.