'Complete lawlessness': BJP MLA Suvendu Adhikari writes to Bengal governor over Malda violence

NEW DELHI:

West Bengal

's leader of opposition

Suvendu Adhikari

on Thursday wrote a letter to governor CV Ananda Bose requesting immediate deployment of paramilitary forces in Malda's Mothabari.
In his letter to Bose, Adhikari highlighted concerns about the deteriorating law and order situation in West Bengal.

"This is to inform Your Excellency that a shocking incident has taken place on 27th March at Mothabari, where a large group of miscreants belonging to a particular community has targeted a launched a vicious attack on the Sanatani Hindus of the aforesaid area," the BJP's Nandigram MLA wrote.

"Such despicable incidents reflect a complete state of lawlessness in West Bengal and there is an urgent need of the Central Armed Police Force to protect the Sanatani Hindus from such attacks at the hands of the aforesaid miscreants," he added.
Meanwhile, BJP IT cell chief Amit Malviya, the party's co-incharge of West Bengal, criticized chief minister Mamata Banerjee for being in London amid "ripping chaos" at home.
"

Communal violence

erupts in Mothabari, Dakshin Malda—murderous Muslim mobs rampage through streets, attacking Hindu homes, shops, and cars without provocation. Meanwhile, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee prances around in London, indifferent to the ripping chaos back home," Malviya wrote on X.

Trinamool Congress supremo Banerjee, West Bengal's chief minister since 2011, will target a fourth consecutive term in office when the state holds assembly election in May 2026.