Mamata to meet poll violence victims today

Kolkata, April 13

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will on Wednesday meet those who were injured in firing by central forces at Sitalkuchi in Cooch Behar district on April 10. While four persons, all belonging to a minority community, died in the firing, four others had sustained injuries. They are undergoing treatment at Mathabhanga in Cooch Behar district.

Taking on Mamata for her oft-repeated “outsider” barb against him and PM Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah today said it was the Trinamool Congress, Left and the Congress which had to depend on outsiders.

He said Mamata called him and Modi outsiders, but it was her party that depended on votes from illegal immigrants. “Am I an outsider? Am I not a citizen of the country? Didi calls the country’s PM an outsider,” Shah said at a poll rally at this tea garden town in the Dooars area of Jalpaiguri district. — TNS/PTI