"Mamata Banerjee Playing Politics With Firing Victims' Bodies": PM Modi

PM Modi referred to a reported audio clip doing the rounds in which she is allegedly heard planning to take out a rally of the bodies.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today accused West Bengal Chief Minister of conspiring to use the bodies of the five victims of last week's Cooch Behar firing to consolidate her vote bank. He referred to a reported audio clip doing the rounds in which she is allegedly heard planning to take out a rally of the bodies. The Trinamool had earlier claimed that the BJP had distorted the content of the audio clip to spread disinformation amid the ongoing state Assembly election. Five people were killed in firing by security forces on April 10 after violence broke out at a polling booth at Sitakulchi in Cooch Behar district when voting was going on in the fourth of the eight-phase Bengal election. Speaking in Asansol today, PM Modi said the "audio tape had made it clear that Ms Banerjee was playing politics".