The decision to not let the three-member BJP team go there was a "text book example" of Banerjee's vote bank politics, BJP national secretary Sidharth Nath Singh alleged, claiming that the "dictatorial" state government had compassion for criminals but it showed guns to nationalists.
Rejecting the government's explanation for the violence in Malda district on January 3, he said, the purpose behind it was to destroy the records, which were allegedly related to a fake currency racket, kept in a police station.
A mob of over 1 lakh people, he said, assembled by "stoking communal passion" but the state government took no action while provocative leaflets were distributed.
The crowd was reportedly protesting against the allegedly blasphemous remarks made by a Hindutva leader before it turned violence.
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Singh, who is also party's co-incharge of the poll-bound state, said the protest was held more than a month after those "condemnable" remarks were made, claiming that it was not a spontaneous event but a planned action.
"You have taken no action despite knowing it. 80 per cent of fake currency passes through Malda. Opium is produced there and smuggled to Bangladesh. Who do you want to save?" he said, attacking the Chief Minister.
NIA has arrested over 15 people across the country and all of them are connected to the fake-currency racket linked to Malda, he said, adding that the agency was about to "bust" it.