Following the explosion at an illegal firecracker factory at Duttapukur in North 24-Parganas on Sunday in which eight people were killed and several injured, a political slugfest has erupted in the state.
The leader of the opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari claimed that the state administration was understating the casualty figure since as per the information available with him the death count was around 10.
"The owners and operators of the illegal firecracker factory and warehouse are all close confidants of the ruling Trinamul Congress and hence the administration will not take any action against them. The administration will just wait for the media attention and hullabaloo to ebb on the issue. The political interests of Trinamul Congress are associated with the operation of these illegal firecracker units," he said.
Trinamul Congress' state spokesman in West Bengal Kunal Ghosh said it was a wrong conception that all firecracker factories were illegal.
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