NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday trained guns at Trinamool Congress after party leader Amrita Ekka’s husband Francis Ekka was arrested in West Bengal’s Darjeeling with confidential DRDO documents and a large quantity of radioactive materials worth crores.
BJP’s national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla accused TMC of indulging in activities that threaten national security.
“Dangerous nuclear material which is worth crores of rupees and DRDO documents which are confidential in nature were recovered from the house of a TMC leader. Francis Ekka, from whom these documents were recovered and this material was recovered happens to be the husband of a TMC leader in the Naxalbari Panchayat Samiti,” Poonawalla said.
“How can such kind of important national security documents and such material reach the house of a TMC leader? Isn’t it proof of their anti-national antecedents and activities? How did the administration not know? Is it complicity or plain ignorance and incompetence? Either way, TMC has had a long history of compromising national interest for vote bank interest, compromising national and state interest for their private corrupt interests,” he added.
Further, Poonawalla asked for a thorough probe into the matter as he went on to accuse TMC of sheltering “Rohingyas infiltrators and bomb makers.”
“We have seen the manner of corruption they have done. We have seen the patronage and shelter given to all kinds of elements like Rohingyas infiltrators, bomb makers only so that they can do well in elections and now compromising with national security itself. Should the TMC not be made accountable? Should there not be a complete probe as to at what levels was this leader being protected from? Today a deep and thorough probe is required.”
This comes after the West Bengal Police arrested Ekka in a joint raid with the army from Belgachi village in Naxalbari block.
“We found several confidential DRDO documents and a large quantity of radioactive Californium in his possession. The accused person failed to give any clear answer as to why those materials were with him,” the officer said, adding that the market value of a gram of the seized material could be around Rs 17 crore.
“The accused has been charged with smuggling sensitive DRDO documents and radioactive materials. He may have links to foreign organisations. He is being interrogated,” he said.
