Mamata Banerjee blames AIMIM, ISF for judicial officers' gherao; accuses Congress, BJP of instigation
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Mamata Banerjee accuses AIMIM, ISF, Congress, and BJP of instigating violence and questions the assembly poll electoral rolls.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday (April 3, 2026) blamed AIMIM and ISF for the gherao of judicial officers in Malda district and accused the Congress and the BJP of instigation.
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Stating that the mastermind behind Wednesday's (April 1) gherao of the judicial officers for several hours in Malda district's Mothabari was arrested by the State's CID, Ms. Banerjee claimed that this police organisation is still under her control and not of the Election Commission.
"The BJP loaned him (the accused) from the AIMIM and brought him here," she alleged, while addressing an election rally at Harirampur in Dakshin Dinajpur district.
"ISF is with them; Congress and BJP have also provided instigation," the Trinamool Congress chief alleged, while stating that the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested the main accused, advocate Mofakkarul Islam, from Bagdogra airport when he was trying to flee.
"It is they who engineered the violence in Malda's Mothabari," she said.
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