India, April 14 -- Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Sunday accused West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of "doing drama" over the recent violence in Murshidabad district linked to protests against the Waqf (Amendment) Act that has killed three people, leading to over 150 arrests.

The former MP from Murshidabad's Berhampore said that the chief minister "pretends to be secular" and accused her of giving the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) an opportunity to call common Muslims jihadis.

"We all know that the BJP will do communal polarisation. The West Bengal chief minister is doing drama, she pretends to be secular. The Bengal government is giving the BJP an opportunity to call common Muslims jihadis, and who benefits from this?...