NurPhoto via Getty Images Mamata Banerjee, Chief Minister of West Bengal, calls emergency meeting to address the Darjeeling issue at State secretariat office Nabanna on June 17, 2017 in Kolkata.

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As many as four companies comprising 400 troops paramilitary troops of the Border Security Force were rushed to the North 24 Parganas in West Bengal after violent communal clashes broke out over a Facebook post by a Hindu boy that Muslims found blasphemous. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) alleged that a riotous mob of 2,000 Muslims attacked Hindu homes, set up blockades, and torched its offices in Baduria under Basirhat sub-division on Tuesday.

On Wednesday, a 48-hour curfew was imposed in Basirhat and the situation remained "tense but under control". PTI reported that no untoward incident was reported till 11 am and announcements were being via the public address system asking people to maintain law and order.

Local train services were affected in Sealdah-Bangaon section as people squatted on the tracks at Duttapukur and Ashokenagar stations. A pair of trains plied from Basirhat station in the morning hours after which services were disrupted due to demonstration there, GRP sources told PTI.

Most of the shops, markets remained shut in and around Baduria including Keosha market, Banshtala, Ramchandrapur and Tentulia, and schools remained shut. BSF personnel cleared roads after removing the blockades put up by a mob.

The student of Class X, who put up the allegedly blasphemous post, has been arrested. Paramilitary troops were deployed in Bashirhat, Swarupnagar, Baduria and Devganga areas.

'The Governor Threatened Me'

Meanwhile, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee accused Governor Keshari Nath Tripathi of "threatening" her over the phone and acting like a "BJP block president". "The governor cannot threaten me like this.... He called me on my phone and threatened me," she told reporters at Nabanna, the state secretariat.

A statement from the Governor's house said: "The Hon'ble Governor did say to the Hon'ble Chief Minister to ensure peace and law and order by all means. The Hon'ble Governor always holds the persons, who occupy the Constitutional positions, in high esteem." Tripathi also spoke to Home minister Rajnath Singh on the issue.

Banerjee said she was so insulted by the way Tripathi spoke to her, she contemplated resigning.

"I have told the Hon'ble governor that 'you cannot talk to me like this'. The way the governor is speaking, it seems that the BJP block president is speaking."

"I have told the Hon'ble governor that 'you cannot talk to me like this'. The way the governor is speaking, it seems that the BJP block president is speaking.... After this insult, I had myself thought that I would resign. I have never been insulted in this way in my whole life. I'm really sorry if I have hurt anybody because of what I said. I apologise for that. But my conscience was extremely hurt today. I have not sat on this chair just for the sake of it. I work hard to accomplish whatever I can," Telegraph quoted her as saying.

"This is a serious issue, let me handle it seriously," she added.

In a PTI report, Banerjee is quoted as saying that the "ruling party at the Centre has an agenda. They have formed a 'Gau Raksha group' to kill people. A 'hate group' was formed to foment riots. Riots are taking place in the name of Hindu Samhati."

In a letter to Singh, BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, who is also in charge of WB, wrote: "More than 2,000 Muslims attacked Hindu families. Bombs went off at many places and information of Hindu sisters and daughters being raped have also been received. Local workers (of BJP) have said many facilities including five BJP offices were set on fire."

Four Vishwa Hindu Parishad members — Sanjay Goswami, Rajarshi Lahiri, Suraj Poddar and Surojit Biswas —were arrested, the Indian Express reported.