Delhi blast: TMC hits out at Centre, demands Amit Shah's resignation

Kolkata: The Trinamool Congress (TMC) has hit out at the central government led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for the explosion near Red Fort in Delhi on Monday, demanding the resignation of the Union Home Minister Amit Shah.

The party, led by West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, demanded the constitution of a Special Investigation Team to probe the blast. It also criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Bhutan on Tuesday, just a day after the deadly explosion in the national capital.

“As for the ‘Pradhan Sevak’, @narendramodi is too busy posing for cameras on foreign soil while his own citizens perish at home. Every explosion, every security lapse, every innocent life lost exposes the utter collapse of national security under @BJP4India’s watch,” the TMC posted on X.

The party referred to the terrorist attacks in Pulwama and Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir in February 2019 and April 2025. “Each time, the nation bleeds. Each time, the same man, @AmitShah, walks away unscathed, without an ounce of accountability. Any Home Minister with even a shred of conscience would have stepped down by now. But remorse and responsibility are foreign to this regime,” noted the party in power in West Bengal.

“An impartial, time-bound investigation must be conducted by a Special Investigation Team (SIT), under court supervision if necessary, to uncover the truth and ensure that those responsible are held fully accountable,” Mamata’s heir apparent, Abhishek Banerjee, the general secretary of the TMC, wrote on the social media platform.

Shashi Panja, a senior TMC leader and a minister in the state government, told media persons in Kolkata on Tuesday that the party was demanding the resignation of Home Minister Amit Shah as he should own up the responsibility for the failure in preventing the explosion in the national capital.

Abhishek said that it was extremely distressing that such an incident had taken place in the heart of the national capital.

“The Delhi Police, which is directly under the Union Home Ministry, bears the primary responsibility for maintaining law and order. How, then, are such grave lapses in security being allowed to occur?” he questioned, adding: “Only yesterday morning, nearly 350 kg of explosives and an assault rifle were recovered from Faridabad in Haryana. Viewed together, these incidents raise alarming questions about internal security and the evident decline in vigilance.”

“India needs a capable Home Minister, not a full-time hate campaign minister. Isn’t it (Shah)’s duty to protect both our borders as well as our cities? Why is he failing so spectacularly on all counts?” Mahua Moitra, a TMC member in the Lok Sabha, posted on X.