Mamata Banerjee on Monday said Tripura chief minister Biplab Deb would not have allowed alleged persecution of Trinamul Congress supporters in his state without Union home minister Amit Shah’s active support.

The Bengal chief minister on Monday visited SSKM hospital in Calcutta where Trinamul’s student leaders injured in Tripura were undergoing treatment. They were brought to Calcutta on Sunday by Trinamul’s national general-secretary Abhishek Banerjee.

“It (the alleged persecution of Trinamul in Tripura) took place under instructions from the Union home minister (Shah). This I do believe. Otherwise, the Tripura chief minister wouldn’t have had this much courage,” Mamata said after spending around 15 minutes with the injured leaders at the hospital.

The injured student leaders included Debangshu Bhattacharya, Sudip Raha and Jaya Dutta.

On Monday, the Trinamul chief alleged that the Diamond Harbour MP’s life was in danger, apparently accusing the BJP — without taking names — of conspiring to kill him.

“The way his (Abhishek’s) car was attacked. His head could have been injured. Later, their administration gave a bullet-proof car. Or else, the glass would have easily been shattered. With it, his head could have been smashed. Everything happened in front of the (Tripura) police,” the Trinamul chief said, referring to an alleged attack on her nephew’s convoy, during a visit to Tripura earlier this month.

On Monday, Trinamul, which protested in Parliament over the alleged incidents, demanded Deb’s resignation as chief minister of Tripura over such issues.

“A danobik party is running Tripura… the BJP. The BJP, in any state… in Assam, you saw, our people were not allowed to enter. Sent back from the airport, when I had sent them during the NRC exercise. When the Hathras incident took place in Uttar Pradesh, I had sent a team of MPs. Outside the airport… they weren’t even allowed to enter,” said Mamata.

“Beaten up, hit with stones, shot at… these are students. Cars damaged, heads injured… Jaya’s face and ear were badly injured. Sudip has a head injury. The most surprising part of this, they did this right in front of the (Tripura) police,” she added.

The Bengal chief minister alleged that neither was any treatment allowed for their injuries nor were they given even a glass of water at the police station, for 36 hours since the purported attack on them on Saturday.

“In the future, we will win Tripura, that I firmly believe… that the people (there) will give a fitting response to this torture,” she said.

Asked if she was planning to visit Tripura soon, Mamata said: “I will say later.” “It is happening already… the party has been going,” she added.