India
oi-Vicky Nanjappa
New Delhi, Feb 18: A war of words has broken out in political circles following a bomb attack on West Bengal labour minister, Jakir Hossain.
Reacting to the incident, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee alleged that this was part of a conspiracy. She said that some people were pressurising him to join their party. She also held the Indian Railways responsible for the incident.
Some were pressurising him, it is part of a conspiracy: Mamata on bomb attack on minister
While, the war of words continue, one must recollect that Hossain had in December 2017 filed a complaint against two cattle smugglers who had threatened to kill him. The two cattle smugglers named in the complaint by Hossain were Trinamul supporters.
He began getting the death threats because he was vocal against smuggling of cattle, firearms, sugar and salt across the the border to Bangladesh.
