LIVE! Mamata threatens to send TMC MPs to BJP-ruled states

June 16, 2014 11:29

And in West Bengal, news from CM Mamata Banerjee. Irked by the BJP sending two teams of its central leaders to the state over the alleged incidents of violence against its workers, Banerjee today threatened to send her MPs to BJP-ruled states if there was any incident there.

"I feel that from now on, if there is any incident in any BJP-ruled state, we will also send a central team Trinamool Congress (TMC) central team there because it cannot be one-sided," the TMC chief said in Kolkata.

"They will get just as they do, tit for tat. We don't want any unnecessary tension, but if BJP thinks that it will indulge in violence by joining hands with the CPI(M) goons, then that cannot be tolerated by a democratic government," she said.

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