New Delhi, April 9 -- As violence erupted during a protest against the Waqf (Amendment) Act in West Bengal's Murshidabad district, Union Minister and BJP's state president Sukanta Majumdar accused the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led state government of "state sponsored violence" and diverting from the issue of 26,000 teachers in the state losing their jobs.

"We knew Mamata Banerjee would try to divert people's attention from the issue of 26,000 teachers losing their jobs. This is state-sponsored violence. Ahead of the 2021 elections in West Bengal, when CAB was passed to form CAA, we saw such violence in the state; a train was burnt," Majumdar claimed during a press conference in Delhi.

He further compared the violence which took pla...