"Making Bombs Normal In Bengal Politics": BJP Leader's Shocker

Bengal has seen violent politics for years with country bombs used by political workers to target rivals.

Bengal BJP leader Dilip Ghosh, reacting to a party leader returning to the Trinamool Congress, made a hugely controversial statement today, appearing to trivialise political violence. "It is normal in Bengal politics to make bombs," he told reporters.

BJP Vice President and MP, Arjun Singh, on Sunday went back to Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress, a party he had left in 2019. He also lost no time in declaring that he wants to see Mamata Banerjee as Prime Minister.

Dilip Ghosh lashed out at him, saying "those who don't practise politics based on principles" will find it difficult to stay in the BJP.

Reporters reminded him of his own allegation in the past that Arjun Singh makes bombs and questioned why he had taken him into the BJP in the first place, if that was true.