KOLKATA, April 12 -- The sudden burst of communal violence in different parts of West Bengal, ostensibly in protest of the Waqf Amendment Act, may just be a ploy to divert attention from the growing outrage over the Trinamool Congress' role which forced the Supreme Court to order the en masse sacking of school teachers and staff, say BJP leaders. BJP leader Dilip Ghosh said: "Why should there be violence after the Waqf Bill has become law after receiving the President's assent? This is Mamata's plan to divert public attention from the sacking of 26,000 teachers. After all, everybody knows that the Trinamool Congress is responsible for the mass sackings."

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