Overview

• BJP state president Sukanta Majumdar claimed on X that Eid-ul-Adha rituals left Kolkata’s Chowringhee streets and municipal taps running with blood, accusing Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee of pursuing appeasement politics to build a “Greater Bangladesh.”
• The BJP’s official X handle released videos purportedly showing blood-soaked roads in Ward 44 and warned that the scenes posed a serious threat to public safety and communal harmony.
• CNN-News18 could not independently verify the footage’s authenticity, and the West Bengal Cyber Crime Wing said the clips date back to a September 2016 event in Dhaka, not Kolkata.
• TMC leader Kunal Ghosh declined to confirm the origin of the videos, charging that the BJP was circulating unverified content to inflame communal tensions.
• The exchange follows recent communal clashes in Murshidabad and Malda and intensifies political rivalry ahead of state elections over issues including Waqf law amendments and alleged cross-border infiltration.