700 people missing in Delhi: Mamata

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said that 700 people are still missing in Delhi following last week’s riots there.

"The situation in Delhi is pathetic. There are heaps of bodies. Many people have become homeless. Bodies are being recovered from drains. Seven hundred people are still missing," she said while addressing party workers at Buniyadpur in South Dinajpur district in North Bengal on Wednesday.

She said that the Delhi riots were "genocide."

"It has been camoufledged as a riot but was genocide," she said and then advised her supporters, "Don't call it a riot. Campaign everywhere saying it was genocide."

In an apparent jibe at Union Home Minister Amit Shah who had claimed at a rally in Kolkata that BJP would topple the Mamata Banerjee government in 2021. "Manage Delhi first. Think of Bengal only after that," she said.

 

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