Home Minister Rajnath Singh with other BJP leaders at Ashoknagar on Thursday.
No time frame was set for it. Nor, whether the Home Ministry would probe the incident. But, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said the real culprits behind the communal violence at Kaliachak, in Malda in West Bengal on January 3, would be exposed, caught and punished.
"No one is safe in Bengal, neither 'ma', nor 'mati' or 'manush'," he said at a rally at Ashoknagar, 70 km from Kolkata, 350 km from Malda. "Ma, Mati, Manush" or "mother, land and humankind" is West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's favourite slogan about her service to 'mother--land-humans'.
"Not even the police are safe," he said, adding, "The truth about Malda will be exposed." As Mr Singh was leaving the venue, he was asked if and when his ministry would send a team to Malda, as demanded by BJP MPs. "I have said what I had to say on stage," is all he said.
Mr Singh's closing comments, coming a day after a cordial tweet exchange between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bengal chief minister, may have angered the Trinamool.
"There is a lot of vote bank politics. I appeal to Hindus, Muslims...we should not do such politics. But we will not appease criminals, irrespective of cast and community," he said.
"Mr Rajnath Singh, Malda is your creation. As the Home Minister of the country you should not be on a mission to stoke communal tension," said chief national spokesperson of Trinamool, Derek O'Brien, in a statement. "The country knows this is a well-known tactic BJP uses when elections are at hand. And, all this coming from a central government which is running the nation using 'agencies' to pursue its own cynical agenda."
"You are using a political meeting to threaten the state. Which home minister with a conscience would do that?" he added.