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BJP gets more ammunition for mission West Bengal, seeks NIA probe into Burdwan blasts

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Faced with a common foe, the Left and BJP are competing with each other to take on West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee. The Burdwan blast has triggered a political row as Trinamool Congress's rivals — Left and BJP— seek NIA probe.

After the Saradha chit fund scam, the Burdwan blast has given more fodder to the BJP to fight the ruling TMC in the state, where it made its foray into the assembly last month.

"The blast is an act of terror and it has international ramifications. The state should hand over the investigations to NIA. The Centre is in touch with the state government and will do whatever is in country's interests," BJP national secretary and state in-charge Siddharth Nath Singh said here on Monday.

He said the delay in handing over the probe to NIA was raising doubts of cover-up. The BJP leader said alleged that links of a senior police officer in Burdwan with TMC were known and asked if the ruling party had used him to destroy evidence.

Though Singh said the Burdwan blast issue was not about political gains and losses, it has certainly given the BJP another ground to target Banerjee's TMC and sustain its political campaign in the state.

Ahead of the Basirhat Dakshin by-poll, the party had relied on the Saradha scam and the Bangladeshi immigrants issue. Singh had quoted reports in Bangladeshi papers to allege that TMC's Rajya Sabha MP Hasan Ahmed Imran used Saradha chit fund money to fund subversive programmes of the Jamaat-e-Islami party to try to dislodge the Sheikh Hasina government, attracting a defamation suit. The BJP's Samik Bhattacharya won the election, defeating TMC, reducing CPM to the third place and giving the saffron party hope of making wider inroads into the state which was once a Left bastion.

The same day as the BJP demanded NIA probe into the blast in Khagragarh near Burdwan, the CPM polit buro too issued a statement seeking NIA investigation saying no effort should be spared to uncover the forces behind the "bomb-making centre".

"There is sufficient ground to believe that extremist elements are involved. The house concerned is owned by a Trinamool Congress worker and it is alleged that a TMC office used to function from the garage in the house.... The way in which the Burdwan Superintendent of Police and other state police officials have dealt with the incident has raised doubts and questions.

CPI leader Atul Kumar Anjan alleged that the Houses of TMC leaders acted as safe haven for regular interaction between suspected militants.

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