‘BJP wanted to assassinate Abhishek’
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KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo made a shocking claim saying that the BJP attempted to kill her party’s national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee. She was speaking at two election rallies — one in Birbhum’s Hansan and Bhatar in East Burdwan.
She alleged that the attempts were made after the BJP failed to fight her party politically.
Referring to two separate incidents — the arrest of
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» one person identified as Rajaram Rege by Kolkata police for allegedly carrying out recce outside Abhishek’s residence and Opposition leader Suvendu Adhikari’s statement that he would burst a bomb, Mamata said without taking latter’s name: “The traitor in the BJP recently said that Trinamool will see explosions. If they have a grudge against me, they can kill me with a bomb. They even tried to kill Abhishek but we came to know about it in advance. The accused even conducted a recce of his residence, called him and asked for an appointment. Had Abhishek given him time, the accused would have shot and fled.” Rege who had once met the 26/11 Mumbai attack plotter has been arrested by Kolkata police.
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