Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday condemned the attack on BJP president JP Nadda’s convoy in West Bengal, saying that the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government will have to answer the people for the “sponsored violence”. 

“The attack on BJP national president JP Nadda ji today in Bengal is very condemnable, no amount of criticism is enough for it,” Shah said in a tweet in Hindi. 

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“The central government is taking this attack very seriously. The West Bengal government will have to answer their peaceful loving citizen for this sponsored violence.”

Meanwhile, Union Agriculture Minister Narendra Singh Tomar also condemned the incident and tore into the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led TMC government. 

“Such incidents are rising, this has reached to such an extent that stone pelting is being done on the convoy of BJP national president who has been provided security. This is being ignored by the state govt. We condemn this attack,” news agency ANI quoted Tomar as saying. 

Earlier today, Nadda’s convoy came under attack by alleged TMC supporters when he was en route to Diamond Harbour to address party workers, PTI reported.

BJP leaders, including national general secretary Kailash Vijayvargia, were injured in the attack. 

Diamond Harbour is represented by Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee in the Lok Sabha.