Trinamool demands Home Minister resign for ‘failures on an industrial scale’

The Trinamool Congress leadership on Tuesday (November 11, 2025) blamed security lapses by the Union Home Ministry for the blast at Delhi’s Red Fort and demanded the resignation of Union Home Minister Amit Shah. The Trinamool also sought to know why the Prime Minister chose such a delicate moment to visit Bhutan.

They asked that Prime Minister Narendra Modi explain “why diplomacy took precedence over mourning those who died at India’s most sacred symbol of freedom.”

Senior leaders of the party held a press conference in Kolkata and said the blast indicated an “administrative failure on an industrial scale, and a collapse of basic vigilance, and coordination.” An explosion near Red Fort in Delhi on Monday (November 10) killed at least 13 people and left several injured.

“While @narendramodi selfies his way through foreign visits, and @AmitShah treats electioneering as his day job, the responsibility to protect the people has been abandoned. When those entrusted with our security are absent, indifferent, or preoccupied, the cost is paid in blood and fear. And yesterday, that price was exacted on the streets of Delhi. We demand the immediate resignation of the Union Home Minister!,” the West Bengal ruling party posted on its official social media handles.

Grave lapses

Earlier in the day, Trinamool Congress general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, while expressing his condolences over the death of civilians in the blast, said that “it is extremely distressing that such an incident has taken place in the heart of our 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?” Mr. Banerjee asked, pointing out that only yesterday morning, nearly 350 kg of explosives and an assault rifle were recovered from Faridabad in Haryana.

Later in the day, senior Trinamool Congress leader and Minister Shashi Panja and Barrackpore MP Partha Bhowmick held a press conference raising questions about the track record of the BJP government as far as incidents of terrorist attacks in the country are concerned. They referred to terrorist attacks in Pulwama (2019), Uri and Pathankot (both in 2016), and Pahalgam (2025).

“We are pained at the incident, but we are also a little angry and agitated as we cannot have faith in those who are at the helm of affairs... the Union Home Minister and also the Prime Minister. We do not have faith because the Home Minister is busy with elections, and the Prime Minister has left for Bhutan. How will the country have faith in such times?” Dr. Panja asked.