Branding the BJP as “a party of rioters”, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday said, “We don’t want violence, we don’t want bloodshed, and we don’t want the politics of retaliation to enter Bengal.”

Admitting that the relief doled out after Cyclone Amphan by her government might have missed out “one or two” beneficiaries, she said BJP leaders were nowhere to be seen during the crisis. She claimed that BJP leaders “arrive here in choppers and planes from outside with bagful of cash to lure voters and loot votes” just ahead of elections.