Didi, Do Not Flirt with Jihadis.

On 2 October 2014 at 12:00 noon when the whole nation was observing Ahimsha on the eve of Gandhi Jayanti an explosion occurred in a two-storied building in the Khagragarh locality of Burdwan. The building was owned by Nurul Hasan Chowdhury who used to stay in another house across the road. Hasan Chowdhury was a leader of the Trinamool Congress and the ground floor of the building was used as Trinamool Congress party office. During the 2008 and 2013 Panchayat elections, it was used as the election office by the Trinamool Congress.

Locals informed the police and the fire brigade when they heard the sound of explosion and saw smoke billowing out of the first floor room. When the police arrived, two women inside the building prevented the police from entering at gunpoint, threatening to blow up the building and destroyed several documents and evidences. Shakil Ahmed who had rented the place and hailed from Karimpur in Nadia district, died on the spot. Two persons were injured. One of them Sobhan Mondal died later at the Burdwan Medical College and Hospital.The other named Abdul Hakim, from Lalgola in Murshidabad district, was admitted to the hospital in the critical condition. The two women, wives of Shakil Ahmed and Abdul Hakim and their two children were left unharmed. It is reported in news channels that these two women were trained in Pakistan ten years back to carry out terrorist activities in Bangladesh but they fled Bangladesh once crackdown on terrorism happened in Bangladesh.

According to the NIA, the Al Jihad module had planned a series of ten blasts in Kolkata during the Durga Puja. A team from Central Forensic Research Laboratory reach the spot on 4 October. They inspected the sand from the detonation site and suspected that the operatives belonged to Indian Mujahideen. In the wake of NIA taking up the probe in the Oct 2 explosion in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee hit out at the Narendra Modi government for "interfering in state matters and jeopardising federalism". Notwithstanding the Banerjee regime's opposition, the union home ministry directed the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to probe the explosion in Khagragarh in Burdwan district.

Now let us analyze why she is opposing NIA probe when it is very clear that neither CID nor Police are capable to investigate such a case which is linked to International Terrorism.

We have to go little back to analyze this. Mamata did send SIMI activist Ahmed Hassan Imran to Rajya Sabha in 2014. Ahmed Hassan Imran is a frontman for Jamat-e-Islami, Bangladesh (JIB). Mr. Imran maintained close association with many top-ranking JIB leaders. TMC MP was the past president of banned student’s outfit, Student Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and Imran developed close association with important JIB leaders of Bangladesh. These leaders are Motiur Rehman Nizami (present chief of JIB, charged with war crimes by the War Crimes Tribunal), Delwar Hossain Sayeedi (deputy head of JIB, sentenced to death by the tribunal), Mir Kasem Ali (JIB associate) and others.

Mr. Imran had appropriated funds of Islamic Bank in Jeddah while working as the Indian counsellor of the bank. Moreover, he (Mr. Imran) got a loan of Rs. 66.10 crore from Saradha Printing and Publication Pvt Ltd (the publishing arm of the controversial Saradha Group), which was raised from hapless investors and in turn he (Mr. Imran) gave a loan to many. Mr. Imran has also worked as a correspondent of a “pro-JIB newspaper of Bangladesh in West Bengal” and Radio Tehran’s Bengali outlet’s news gatherer, besides running his own newspaper, ‘Kolam’, Mr Deb said.

The Nation Wants to Know from Mamata the answer of the below questions:

Why was it so important for the TMC to make such a person like Ahmed Hassan Imran an MP?

Why the building where the blast took place in Burdwan was used as the election office by the Trinamool Congress?

Why the West Bengal Police quickly destroyed hundreds of Grenades recovered from the Burdwan explosion site?

Mamata must answer these simple questions and comes clean about her party’s alleged linkage with Jihadis. Mamata must not take common citizens of Bengal as granted and consider them as fools who do not understand the her motive to oppose NIA probe. She basically wants to compete with Pakistan in exporting and harboring Islamic Terrorism. Our neighbor country Dhaka is also worried about the terrorist activities that are nurtured in Bengal. Modi ji should think about implementing article 355 and 356 to save people of Bengal from a State Government which is hand in glove with Anti national forces and Jihadis.

By Shri Keshab Roy