Union Minister Giriraj Singh on Sunday alleged Mamata Banerjee's party is perpetrating politics of violence in West Bengal out of frustration as her countdown has begun.
The comments of Singh, a senior BJP leader, came a day after the killing of four persons in clashes between the activists of the saffron party and the Trinamool Congress (TMC) in the neighouring West Bengal.
Accusing the TMC of being responsible the killings, Singh said, “She (Banerjee) has begun to take recourse to the same tactics as the Left Front which preceded her in power and which she had vowed to end.”
The TMC had ousted the CPI(M)-led Left Front government in 2011 after it ruled West Bengal for 34 years.
“In election after election - from the local bodies to the Lok Sabha — she has been facing people's wrath. Democracy has no place for violence, but she is using it out of frustration. Her countdown has begun,” Singh told reporters here.
The Bharatiya Janata Party won 18 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, only four less than the TMC's 22.
The Union Minister had earlier claimed that the TMC supremo has been trying to suppress her political opponents with such a ruthlessness that is comparable only to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
