Middle Bengal’s historic Murshidabad district witnessed unprecedented violence over the Waqf (Amendment) Act, resulting in the deaths of three persons on Saturday. None of the deceased – Ijaz Ahmed, a student, and a father and son of one Das family, Haragovinda and Chandan – were actively instigating violence or part of any political outfit, as their friends and neighbours claimed, and yet they were killed.

A blame game has started identifying hitherto ‘unknown miscreants’, while an important question has to be asked. Who is responsible for the violence? Interestingly, while asking the question, hardly anyone is underscoring significant information. The ruling Trinamool Congress (TMC) overwhelmingly bagged almost all the seats in nearly all the elections in the last few years. Let us look at the nature of TMC’s control.

Murshidabad has more than 66 percent Muslim population, as per the 2011 census, and TMC bagged all........

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