Accusing Trinamool Congress of unleashing a 'reign of terror' on its Muslim workers in West Bengal, a delegation of BJP leaders on Thursday met Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and demanded that a team be sent to look into the matter.

New Delhi: Accusing Trinamool Congress of unleashing a "reign of terror" on its Muslim workers in West Bengal, a delegation of BJP leaders on Thursday met Minister of State for Minority Affairs Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi and demanded that a team be sent to look into the matter.

"In the last five months, five BJP minority members have been killed in Birbhum district. More than 100 have been injured, 25 very seriously. Ruling TMC goons are particularly targeting minorities who have joined BJP or have become its sympathisers. The reign of terror is very palpable," it said in a memorendum submitted to Naqvi.

Urging him to send a team to understand the ground reality, the party leaders said this will provide him with first-hand details of the atrocities and give a long way in "restoring the feeling of confidence in the minds of the minorities".

BJP Secretary and in-charge of West Bengal Siddharth Nath Singh, Union minister and MP from West Bengal Babul Supriyo and SS Ahluwalia and Chandan Mitra, both MPs, submitted the memorendum.

The leaders alleged that there was evidence to suggest that people belonging to TMC were permitted to enter a village freely and continue the reign of terror unabated.

"This highly partisan act of the police is condemnable," they said.

The TMC government has made the State Minority Commission and the State Human Rights Commission completely defunct, they alleged.

PTI