Kolkata: BJP on Tuesday seized on a comment by CM Mamata Banerjee in which she allegedly told a section of voters that their safety depended on Trinamool Congress.BJP claimed the remark had “exposed” Banerjee’s “politics of appeasement”, alleging that it was not meant to protect minorities but was a “cold, calculated strategy to weaponise insecurity, disrupt national integration and ultimately threaten the very existence of a peaceful Bengal” “For over a decade, Mamata Banerjee has manufactured a sense of perpetual victimhood among the Muslim community. She has cynically used them not as citizens to be empowered but as a captive vote bank,” the party said.The party said state BJP president Samik Bhattacharya, has relentlessly “exposed the grim, undeniable reality that the Muslims of Bengal have been confined to poor living conditions under the rule of the Trinamool Congress.”
