Mamata Banerjee: Bomb attack on Bengal minister over a political feud

Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee. Pic/AFP

The bomb attack on West Bengal minister Jakir Hossain, who was seriously hurt, was prima facie the result of a political feud involving the ruling TMC members, railway officials said on Thursday.

They said the reason could also be a political feud between TMC and CPI. "There are also reports of internal feud between the TMC people, and Hossain himself had filed a police complaint in 2017 against two TMC members, who were giving him death threats" an official said.

A crude bomb was hurled at Hossain as he waited to board a train to Kolkata at the Nimtita railway station in Murshidabad district on Wednesday evening. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday slammed the railways for its "lack lusture" way of functioning. The government has handed over the investigation to
the CID.

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