Mamata Banerjee alleges 'bad handling' of Assam situation

KOLKATA: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee today flayed the "bad handling" of the violence at Kokrajhar district in the neighbouring state of Assam.

"West Bengal has to bear the after-effect of violence in Assam. We do not support riots. Bad handling (of the situation)," she told reporters here without elaborating.

Her comments came after four persons were killed in Kokrajhar last night amid indefinite curfew taking the toll in the fresh wave of violence between Bodos and Muslim migrants in the lower Assam district to 10.