BJP MLA Sreerupa Mitra Chaudhury, who was accompanying the NCW team, told PTI Videos, “This is my constituency, Dakshin Malda. I have been contesting from here for the last 12 years, and what I have seen this time is unprecedented. I had never seen violence on such a scale here in the last 12 years.”The NCW team also visited the Dhulian area of Murshidabad district, which witnessed violence on a massive scale during protests against amendments to the Waqf Act on April 11 and 12.They also visited a relief camp in Malda district on Friday and met those displaced by the Murshidabad riots.”From what we’ve seen so far, the situation is extremely distressing. We can feel their pain and sufferings,” the NCW chief said.Slamming the NCW’s visit, the TMC raised serious questions about the commission’s neutrality and political motivations behind its narrative against Bengal.Party’s Rajya Sabha MP Saket Gokhale said NCW member Archana Majumdar, who has been prominently featured in media reports talking about the visit, is a “card-carrying BJP worker” who contested the 2021 Bengal elections on a BJP ticket before losing the race.”What Modi’s PR agency won’t tell you is that this ‘NCW member’ Archana Majumdar contested the 2021 Bengal elections on a BJP ticket and lost. She’s an active card-carrying BJP worker,” Gokhale said, adding, “NCW has long been a political wing of the BJP. And they aren’t even good at hiding it.”TMC state general secretary Kunal Ghosh drew parallels to previous NCW visits to the state, particularly to Sandeshkhali, claiming they followed a familiar pattern of spreading misinformation.”When NCW visited Sandeshkhali the last time, that is when propaganda and misinformation began. The then-NCW chief Rekha Sharma and her team had designed anti-Bengal narratives to defame the state in multiple ways. They are now repeating the same playbook in Murshidabad.”
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