Mamata faces backlash for ‘threatening doctors, NE’,CMs, BJP hit back

The Bharatiya Janata Party has hit out at West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee for allegedly threatening protesting doctors and northeastern states during a public rally at Trinamool Congress Chhatra Parishad (TMCP) foundation day on Wednesday.West Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumdar on Wednesday wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's recent remarks made during the foundation day event of the Trinamool Congress's student wing. Banerjee said "if Bengal burns, then Assam and Delhi too shall burn".Raising objection to her remarks, Majumdar alleged that Banerjee was inciting violence.
"This is nothing less than a blatant endorsement of revenge politics from the highest office in the state. She shamelessly makes anti-national remarks, saying, "remember, if Bengal burns, then Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, and Delhi will also burn"," Majumdar wrote in the letter to Home Minister Shah.“It is unthinkable and unprecedented for a chief minister, who is constitutionally bound to rise above partisan attitudes, to make such intimidating statements that pose a threat to democracy,” Sukanta Majumdar told reporters.
Speaking at the public rally in Kolkata, Mamata Banerjee had claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was using the BJP to cause a fire in Bengal over the rape and murder of a 31-year-old woman trainee doctor at Kolkata's RG Kar Medical College and Hospital and warned that if you burn Bengal, other states including Assam, northeast, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and Delhi too shall burn and your chair will be toppled.The Trinamool government has faced severe criticism and massive protests over its handling of the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the state-run RG Kar Hospital.
BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi on Wednesday alleged that Mamata Banerjee “straight away threatened doctors” with her statement of not regsitering FIRs against protesting doctors.
Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma also hit out at his West Bengal counterpart for allegedly threatening the northeastern state with unrest.He claimed that Mamata Banerjee was trying to provoke the public to hide her own failures. “Didi, how dare you threaten Assam? Don’t show your anger to us,” Himanta Sarma wrote on X, sharing a 46-second video clip of a speech by the West Bengal CM.
Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh also lashed out at the Bengal CM.“How dare Didi threaten the Northeast? I condemn such irresponsible remarks in the strongest terms. She must publicly apologize to the Northeast and the rest of the nation,” Biren Singh wrote on X.