Trinamool Congress MP Nusrat Jahan has got herself into a rift with BJP for her recent comments on the national ruling party. Nusrat Jahan publicly calling the party "more dangerous than the coronavirus" did not go well with the party.
Nusrat Jahan was speaking at a blood donation camp when she made the controversial comments.
What did Nusrat say?
The actor turned Trinamool politician during a meeting at her constituency Bashirhat said the following.
Keep your ears and eyes open because some people around you are more dangerous than corona. Do you know what is more dangerous than corona? It is the BJP. Because they don't understand our culture. Because they don't understand humanity. They don't understand the value of our hard work. They only know the business. They have a lot of money. They are spreading it everywhere. And then they turn people against each other based on religion and trigger riots.
How did BJP react?
Amit Malviya, BJP's social media head who is co-convenor for the Bengal elections which is due in four months, has targeted Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over her party leader's remarks and accused her of appeasement politics.
"In WB, the worst kind of vaccine politics is unfolding. First, Siddiqulla Chowdhury, a sitting minister in Mamata Banerjee's cabinet, holds up trucks carrying vaccines. Now a TMC MP, campaigning in Muslim majority Deganga, likens BJP to Corona. But Pishi (aunt) is silent. Why? Appeasement?" Mr Malviya tweeted.
Mr Malviya was referring to an episode that happened in Burdwan on Wednesday when a health department van transporting vaccines from Kolkata to Bankura was stuck in a traffic jam on the highway.
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Reportedly, the jam was said to be led by Bengal minister Siddiqulla Chowdhury.
Police had to escort the van through a different route to bypass the jam.