The BJP on Saturday demanded a Supreme Court-monitored probe into the recent fire at WOW! Momo company warehouse and manufacturing unit in West Bengal and raised questions about the police investigation. The devastating fire on January 26 claimed at least 27 lives and reduced to ashes a godown and a manufacturing unit of the momo company at Anandapur in South 24 Parganas district.

Addressing a massive BJP workers’ meeting at Barrackpore in North 24 Parganas, Home Minister Amit Shah came down harshly on Mamata Banerjee. Shah alleged it was “not an accident but the result of the corruption of the her government”. He questioned why the factory owners had not yet been arrested and wondered whether their “proximity” to the ruling party was the reason.