‘Staged drama’: TMC MLA’s remark on Operation Sindoor triggers row; BJP seeks probe | India News

TMC MLA Narendranath Chakraborty

NEW DELHI: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Narendranath Chakraborty has courted controversy by allegedly calling Operation Sindoor “a staged drama,” and accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of “playing with the emotions of patriotic people.” In a purported video clip which went viral on social media on Friday, Chakraborty is seen saying to an viewers that “the way they (BJP) have started this Sindoor Khela (game of vermilion), it seems that the entire episode is a staged drama. This warmongering by the BJP is nothing but a game. In Operation Sindoor, PM Modi has played with the emotions of patriotic people, including women.”However, he later claimed his remark was “twisted and misinterpreted with an ulterior political motive.”“I have high regard for our security forces, including the Indian army. Part of my speech was being circulated and twisted for an ulterior political motive to demean me and my party. As a citizen of this country, I have always been opposed to the sponsoring of terror by Pakistan and have supported the way our forces guard our frontiers,” the Pandabeswar legislator informed information company PTI.‘His private remark; we do not endorse it’: TMCSenior TMC chief and West Bengal minister Chandrima Bhattacharya described Chakraborty’s remark as a “personal” one, and stated the social gathering doesn’t endorse such a remark.“Our chairperson (West Bengal chief minister) Mamata Banerjee, and national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, have already articulated the party’s stand against terror and unequivocally supported our armed forces during Operation Sindoor. We are all united in this issue,” Bhattacharya asserted.BJP calls for NIA probeOn the opposite hand, chief of opposition within the West Bengal meeting and BJP legislator Suvendu Adhikari demanded that the anti-terror National Investigation Agency conduct a probe to analyze if Chakraborty had “links with anti-India forces.”Separately, a pacesetter of the BJP’s minority cell filed an FIR in opposition to the Trinamool member.In the FIR, the opposition social gathering known as for motion in opposition to Chakraborty, alleging he had made an “anti-national statement belittling the valour and sacrifice of armed forces and encouraging Pakistan-sponsored terrorists to destabilise India”.Operation Sindoor, performed on May 7, was India’s retaliatory strike on terror camps in Pakistan after the April 22 Pahalgam assault during which 26 folks, largely vacationers, have been killed in Jammu and Kashmir.